Re: Search/Replace with a leading blank fails

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 08/01/2025 à 19:17, Karl Reinl a écrit :
> Am Mittwoch, dem 08.01.2025 um 17:56 +0100 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > Le 08/01/2025 à 16:42, Karl Reinl a écrit :
> > > Am Mittwoch, dem 08.01.2025 um 10:02 +0100 schrieb Karl Reinl:
> > >
> > > > > e4e0975e4e0975a89e34129de5a2ef99dedb88f315fd0b4
> > > Salut,
> > > still the same (in german and englich IDE)
>
> > You must not check "words only". A word cannot starts with a space,
> > so
> > it cannot match " As String" with a space at the start.
>
> > Regards,
>
> Salut,
>
> oh, yes, my mistake. I read that "words only" as ‘whole words only’
> because that's how I know it.
>
> Thanks

This is what it means: "whole words only". You want to match words only, 
and so you can't use a character that is forbidden inside a word.

The meaning of "word" is hard-coded, it's the following regular expression:

(^|[^_$[:alnum:]])<word>($|[^_$[:alnum:]])

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini.