Search "paragraph break" and replace with "space" in OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1.3...

[raffe]

Hi! I'm trying to search all "paragraph breaks" and replace them with a space = " " in OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1.3 with "Find & Replace". For example, search this text:

"this is
a text with
paragraph breaks
!"

And when I replace all "paragraph breaks" and replace them with a space, it looks like this:

"this is a text with paragraph breaks !"

In the help I can read "Regular expressions. Allows you to use wildcards in your search." and later
"\n
Finds a hard row break that was inserted with Shift+Enter. To change row breaks into paragraph breaks, enter \n in the Search for and Replace with boxes, and then click the Replace all button."

But I can't find how I find paragraph breaks.

[BandC]

You may try searching for ^$

I don't know if this does what you want exactly though.

[raffe]

Thanks, now I understand!!!

I really was looking for $, but I thought that it just meant "end of a paragraph" like it says in the help section for regular expressions, stupid me . After your tips and some tries I now understand that $ IS what I called "paragraph break". So to do "my" Find & Replace I just search for $ and replace with " " (a space).