Small \n\r issue with regular expression Find/Replace

[walt.farrell]

First, thanks for the regular expression support for Find/Replace. In my first simple tests it has worked well.

However, I noticed a small small anomaly. Here's the text in my document:

I did a regular-expression Find and got these results:

As it always has in Find results, Publisher shows that paragraph character at the end of the first list of text as \n\r. That gave me the idea to try finding the \n\r, which got this result:

Seems odd, as the \n\r sequence was supposedly there

I can find either \n or \r and I get this result which shows the \n\r as what was found, but I cannot find the pair together:

Of course, I could always search for a Paragraph Break as a special character via the search pulldown, so it's not a big problem, but it's a bit surprising given that Publisher is showing the \n\r which will lead users to naturally try to use that in constructing their regular expression searches.

 

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Also, I was a bit surprised to find that \n will not match a line-break. One must insert the Line Break character via the pull-down to get a match for it, apparently. That is different from my experiences in other programs that offer regular expression searching.

[Joachim_L]

These commands you see, seem to be internal. Kind of commands like ##b## for rotating the text. I think you have to insert break, new line etc from the pulldown.

[Gabe]

Hi both,

Sorry for the delayed reply. 

This seems to be fixed in the latest beta. 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, GabrielM said:

This seems to be fixed in the latest beta.

Well, it's certainly different in the latest beta (.270). I'll do some more checking. But I will be reporting two new errors

Thanks for responding, Gabe, which prompted me to look at how it works now.

[walt.farrell]

Definitely working better. Thanks!

One can do a regex search for either \n or a Paragraph Break, and the results list show it as a Paragraph Break character.

One can do a regex search for a Line Break and it shows up in the results list properly.