Affinity Publisher V2 Crashes when using Find with regular expressions

[antons]

1. Are you using the latest release version?
   yes, 2.0.4
2. Can you reproduce it?
   1. Create a new design
   2. Add text with text style 'Heading 1'
   3. Add other text on a new line with text style 'Body'
   4. 'Find' with regex expressions on
   5. Change in 'Find/Settings/Format/Character/' the 'Font weight' to Bold
   6. Search for `.*` : it works
   7. Search for `.*$` (end $): it works
   8. Search for `^.*` (start ^): it crashes
3. Does it happen for a new document? Yes
4. If you cannot provide a sample document then please give an accurate description of the problem for example it should include most of the following:

•  I tried switching hardware performance on and off - it still crashes

 

In the meantime: are there other workarounds to find bold text ONLY if it is in the beginning of a line/paragraph?

 

[Old Bruce]

I would use ^.+ for the search string instead of your ^.*

This means I would look for 

^    The start of a line

.    anything

+   one or more instances of the "anything"

instead of your

^    The start of a line

.    anything

*   zero or more instances of the "anything"

[antons]

Thanks Old Bruce, that's a very good point!

My real use case is more complex than .*, but using + in place of * where appropriate fixes the crashes

 

It creates another issue though: I'm searching for bold text in a particular paragraph style (Body), if the bold text is 'alone' in the line:

My Bold Text

everything works as expected, if the bold text precedes normal text:

My Bold Text: Other non bold text

It appears in the 'Find' results, but I can't click the result / clicking doesn't do anything - it doesn't jump to it in the file; clicking 'Replace' also doesn't do anything

[Seneca]

6 minutes ago, antons said:

but using + in place of * where appropriate fixes the crashes

A regular expression, whether well-formed or malformed should not bring the program down.

So I would submit this as a possible bug for the development team to look at.

[walt.farrell]

You may not need the regular expression at all for that, if I understand what you're trying to do. Just leave the find field blank, and search for the font weight.

But I would need more details on what you want to do with the text you find to say for sure.

 

[Dan C]

Hi @antons,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums & thanks for your in-depth report!

20 hours ago, antons said:

• Create a new design
• Add text with text style 'Heading 1'
• Add other text on a new line with text style 'Body'
• 'Find' with regex expressions on
• Change in 'Find/Settings/Format/Character/' the 'Font weight' to Bold
• Search for `.*` : it works
• Search for `.*$` (end $): it works
• Search for `^.*` (start ^): it crashes

 

19 hours ago, antons said:

It creates another issue though: I'm searching for bold text in a particular paragraph style (Body), if the bold text is 'alone' in the line:

My Bold Text

everything works as expected, if the bold text precedes normal text:

My Bold Text: Other non bold text

It appears in the 'Find' results, but I can't click the result / clicking doesn't do anything - it doesn't jump to it in the file; clicking 'Replace' also doesn't do anything

I can confirm that I have been able to replicate both of these issues and I have logged these with our developers for you now.

I hope this helps