problem with selecting text found through a regular expression

[silvoc]

If I use the regular expression .+ coupled with a specific style, the results appear, but selecting them does not move the selection to the found text.

If I repeat the same search coupled with any other style, it will work as expected.

If I use defined query (even if it contains .) coupled with the problematic style, it will work as expected.

[Dan C]

Hi @silvoc,

Thanks for your report!

I can confirm this is already logged with our developers as a bug, I'll be sure to 'bump' this report with your thread now and we hope to have this fixed in an upcoming update.

I hope this helps

[Helmar]

Solved it myself.

Quote

([-]{4,4})\n(.+)\n([\*]{3,3})\n(.+)\n([-]{3,3})

does the trick. 🙂

On 12/2/2021 at 10:15 PM, silvoc said:

If I use the regular expression .+ coupled with a specific style, the results appear, but selecting them does not move the selection to the found text.

If I repeat the same search coupled with any other style, it will work as expected.

If I use defined query (even if it contains .) coupled with the problematic style, it will work as expected.

Silvoc, would you be able to help me with this regex, seeing that you are using it already. I have this "format" where I would like to extract that which is between the four hashes and the  three  stars and turn it into one (quote) style, and that which is between the three stars and three hashes into a quote author style. 

----
Die Wahrheit ist seltsamer als die Fiktion, aber das liegt daran, dass die Fiktion verpflichtet ist, sich an Möglichkeiten zu halten; die Wahrheit ist es nicht.
***
Foo Bar, 16. Jahrhundert
---

Is there a regex that can effect this in Publisher?

TIA,

Helmar

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Helmar said:

would you be able to help me with this regex, seeing that you are using it already. I have this "format" where I would like to extract that which is between the four hashes and the  three  stars and turn it into one (quote) style, and that which is between the three stars and three hashes into a quote author style. 

----
Die Wahrheit ist seltsamer als die Fiktion, aber das liegt daran, dass die Fiktion verpflichtet ist, sich an Möglichkeiten zu halten; die Wahrheit ist es nicht.
***
Foo Bar, 16. Jahrhundert
---

Is there a regex that can effect this in Publisher?

I'm not silvoc of course  

It's not clear to me whether you want to retain the ----, ***, and --- when you're done. But deleting them will be easy enough if you don't want them, and they really can't be deleted until the end anyway.

First Find might be something like: ----(.+?)\*\*\*
First Replace: Click the cog icon and specify the format you want to assign. The Replace text is: \1

Second Find: \*\*\*(.+?)---
Second Replace is the same as the first Replace.

Note that if either extract can have more than 1 paragraph you'll need to set the Regular Expression option "dot matches paragraph break". You'll find it in the cog options for the Find field.