Using Regular Expressions in Text Searches

Regular expressions are special patterns used to find and manipulate text, helping you locate specific information within texts.

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Searching with regular expressions is different from searching with wildcards. LibreOffice Writer only supports searching with regular expressions.


You can use regular expressions when you find and replace text in a document. For example, "s.n" finds "sun" and "son".

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  4. In the Find box, type the search term and the regular expression(s) that you want to use in your search.

  5. Click Find Next or Find All.

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  1. The regular expression for a single character is a period (.).

  2. The regular expression for a word character \w, and \d for a decimal digit.

  3. The regular expression for zero or more occurrences of the previous character is an asterisk. For example: "123*" finds "12" "123", and "1233".

  4. The regular expression to search for zero or more occurrences of any character is a period and asterisk (.*).

  5. The regular expression for one or more occurrences of the previous character is a plus sign (+). For example: "\w+" finds any word, "\d+" any number.

  6. The regular expression for a tab character is \t. More generally, \s stands for all kinds of "spaces", like non-breaking space, carriage return ...

  7. The regular expression for the end of a paragraph is a dollar sign ($). The regular expression for the start of a paragraph is a caret and a period (^.). The regular expression for an empty paragraph is ^$.

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A search using a regular expression will work only within one paragraph. That is, a \n will match a line break within a paragraph.


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