Find and replace fails using RegEx ".+" and character formatting

[crdasneves]

Hi,

In APub 1.8.5.703  (Windows 10) find and replace doesn't work properly when searching is done through the regex ".+" associated with any character format or style setting; in fact, each occurence is finded and listed, but it can't be replaced (it's not even selected in text) unless it's at the end of paragraph. When the regex is changed to "[a-z]+" or to "." OR the format is reset everything works fine (please see the file attached). I've found the same issue in beta 1.9.0.887.

Is this a known bug? Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Cleber

regex_test.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Just to make sure I know what you were trying:

1. What Regular Expression Options did you specify?
   
    
2. What do you mean by "format bold"? Character Style > Strong, or something else?

[crdasneves]

12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Just to make sure I know what you were trying:

1. What Regular Expression Options did you specify?
   
    
2. What do you mean by "format bold"? Character Style > Strong, or something else?

Hi, Walt,

1. No options specified (just like the image above).

2. I've tried it first with local formatting (Format > Character font > Font weight > Bold), but got the same result with Format > Character style > Strong)

Thanks!

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. FYI, there's something a bit weird with your file, but it does not seem to be related to the problem. For example, the "r" in the first "regular" has a character style of  Strong+, which shows in the Text Styles panel as being "Strong + Font Weight: Normal".

So I created my own file, which does not have that problem, but it has the same issue. In playing around, I came up with this:

• If I search for .+ with a format of "font weight: bold" or character style Strong it fails.
• Substituting [a-z0-9 ]+ also fails.
• Substituting [a-z0-9]+ (without allowing a space) works.
• And substituting \w+ works.
• But substituting (\w| )+ fails, as does [\w ]+

So even though the bold/strong text does not have any spaces, if you specify a format option, and you have a pattern that allows matching a space, the search fails to work properly.

Note: "Fails" in this post means that the correct text is found and shows up in the results list, but

1. is not properly selected on the page and
2. repeated pressing of Find does not advance to the next result in the results list.

Here's my file, created in the 1.9 beta:

regex_test2.afpub

[crdasneves]

Thank you very much for your test, Walt. It definitely seems to be related to research patterns that allow spaces. I hope this can be resolved soon.

Cheers!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[Gabe]

Hi both,

Sorry for the delayed reply. 

Thanks for spotting this. Issue logged. 

[crdasneves]

Thanks, Gabe!