Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: Powerful text matching with regular expressions

I cannot make something like: eval\\((((?!eval).)...

2010-09-30T04:10:11.649-06:00

I cannot make something like:
eval\\((((?!eval).)+)\\)
work in OpenOffice regexp Find.

Does it support: ?!

With regard to the Backreferences section, I think...

2009-11-10T10:52:53.281-07:00

With regard to the Backreferences section, I think there is a little mistake. The correct form should be
\<(.*)\>[:space:]\<(\1)\>
with the star INSIDE the round brackets, shouldn't it? Otherwise, it finds every long sentence ending with a one-letter word if it is identical to the last letter of the previous word.
Thanks for you work.

Never mind, found this: sub SelectSentence2 oViewC...

2009-09-01T05:04:42.130-06:00

Never mind, found this:
sub SelectSentence2
oViewCursor = ThisComponent.CurrentController.getViewCursor
oTextCursor = ThisComponent.Text.createTextCursorByRange(oViewCursor)
oTextCursor.gotoStartOfSentence(false)
oTextCursor.gotoEndOfSentence(true)
oViewCursor.gotoRange(oTextCursor,false)
end sub

Charlie

I'm looking for a way to select a sentence, an...

2009-09-01T04:41:11.262-06:00

I'm looking for a way to select a sentence, and assign this to a macro. Triple-clicking doesn't record as a macro, but if there's a way to put it into a macro that would solve it.

To this end I've been trying to reliably find the start of sentences.

Searching backwards for "." or even "\.\>" and then moving forward x spaces doesn't work perfectly, e.g. if there's a heading, or if there's full stops within a sentence to signify abbreviation "approx."

The OOo inbuilt functions of Go To Previous Sentence and Go To Next Sentence don't work if the sentence is the first, or last, in a paragraph, depending on how I'm trying to select the sentence from that point.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Charlie

Thanks very much for the detailed list. Now I'...

2009-08-18T05:22:20.221-06:00

Thanks very much for the detailed list.

Now I'm one step further into solving my problem with cleaning up text.
You all maybe know the problem yourself: Some people prefer less or more new lines, no new line between paragraphs or even double, others may want to add a new paragrah or at least a new line before every "direct speech". Now I can find the problematic sections, but I still need to find a way to replace it with other options, like a second new line. \p replace \p\n won't do that, at least not for me.

I must update my post. My dictionary is set to Sp...

2008-03-28T21:17:00.000-06:00

I must update my post. My dictionary is set to Spanish, and not only does spanish not seem to spellcheck, it also renders the regexp useless. Sorry for the post. Yes myspell-spanish is installed. :) I'm sure it's a configuration thing on my end.

Chao,

I could not get the duplicate word check to work. ...

2008-03-28T20:39:00.000-06:00

I could not get the duplicate word check to work. I set up several examples in writer 2.3.1.2 on openSuse 10.2. Is there a typo, or has something changed in my version? Thanks for the help.

Huw,

You're sharp. I fixed those, and then...

2008-02-04T07:47:00.000-07:00

Huw,

You're sharp. I fixed those, and then I noticed a few where it was written incorrectly that the white space was matched. Thanks! :)

Andrew

Oh. The backreferences link also still points to b...

2008-02-04T02:25:00.000-07:00

Oh. The backreferences link also still points to blogspot.

Developing nicely - a good resource.

Here a...

2008-02-04T02:22:00.000-07:00

Developing nicely - a good resource.

Here are a few things I noticed:

Sets and Classes
[^ab] matches C and D too

Groups
three letter palindromes (palindromes not italicised)

Location
Words with exactly 4 (not 3) letters

Quantification
where x (not z) is an exact number of repetitions

Common Examples
Link still points to blogspot, not new domain.

Huw, nice catch! Thanks! I fixed it now. I lear...

2008-01-02T07:24:00.000-07:00

Huw, nice catch! Thanks! I fixed it now. I learned it is quite the task to proofread an article such as this.

Small typo (C&P error) - in the cd+ example yo...

2008-01-02T04:28:00.000-07:00

Small typo (C&P error) - in the cd+ example you say "Matches: c followed by zero or more d's" but that should be "Matches: c followed by one or more d's".

Interesting article, thanks.