Regex F/R question, Trados 2015 Thread poster: Samuel Murray
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Samuel Murray 
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Hello
I'm trying to perform the following regex find/replace operation in Trados 2015:
The idea is to put square brackets at the start and end of each segment. This works almost, but there are some issues that I hope can be resolved.
1. The F/R operation skips every second segment. Is there any way I can force it to process every segment?
2. Sometimes, the F/R operation stops at a segment and tells me "Segment start/end cannot be deleted". I have not been able to figure out what kinds of segments cause this (sometimes the segment is very short, sometimes quite long). Do you know what causes this and how this can be prevented?
3. I've noticed that even though I specify the start and end of the segment, if a segment starts or ends with a tag, then the brackets get added after the starting tag and before the ending tag, instead of before the starting tag and after the ending tag. Is there any way I can get Trados to perform the replacement at the *real* start and end of the segment?
Thanks
Samuel
| | | | Nora Diaz
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| No answers but a question | Dec 5, 2016 |
Hi Samuel,
I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your questions, although for #3 I think tags are always ignored so you may need an alternative solution there, such as doing the replacement manually or perhaps an Autohotkey script to move the cursor to the left before doing the replacement.
I was just curious and thought I'd ask: why do you use 3 capturing groups in your Find syntax? Wouldn't the second capturing group by itself have the same effect as using all 3?
... See more Hi Samuel,
I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your questions, although for #3 I think tags are always ignored so you may need an alternative solution there, such as doing the replacement manually or perhaps an Autohotkey script to move the cursor to the left before doing the replacement.
I was just curious and thought I'd ask: why do you use 3 capturing groups in your Find syntax? Wouldn't the second capturing group by itself have the same effect as using all 3?
For the segment skipping, I think that should be reported to Support. I tried your example and also saw some segment skipping with no clear pattern, so that's very odd.
Overall, I would suggest posting also in the SDL Community, but I would also suggest that if you need to add brackets to every segment in your file, you may find it easier to do so with an Autohotkey script, something like this:
Send ^{PgUp}
Send [[
Send ^{PgDn}
Send ]]
Send {Down}
You could add a loop to run it multiple times as needed.
Edited to add:
Here's the full script with a variable loop, triggered with the left Windows key:
#IfWinActive ahk_exe SDLTradosStudio.exe
Lwin::
InputBox,Var,Add brackets, How many segments would you like to add brackets to?
loop, % Var
{
Send ^{PgUp}
Send [[
Send ^{PgDn}
Send ]]
Send {Down}
}
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| | | | Samuel Murray
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Nora Diaz wrote:
I was just curious and thought I'd ask: why do you use 3 capturing groups in your Find syntax? Wouldn't the second capturing group by itself have the same effect as using all 3?
I suppose the expression was just a result of my thinking: "replace the first character with [[ plus the first character, replace the last character with the first character plus ]], and retain everything inbetween". I did not stop and try to make the expression simpler once I wrote it. I suppose I could simply have used ^(.*)$, right?
I tried your example and also saw some segment skipping with no clear pattern, so that's very odd.
Segment skipping would make sense if Trados regards the end of one segment to be the beginning of the next segment. In other words, "start" and "end" of segment is not a condition but a character. The same thing happens when you try to perform a wild card search in Word like ^l*^l -- it acts on every second line because the end of one line (in MS Word, the line-feed character) is also the start of the next line.
You may find it easier to do so with an Autohotkey script, something like this...
I do have such a script in AutoIt, actually, but the problem is that the bigger the SDXLIFF file, the slower Trados becomes as you move down further in the file, and that leads to (a) insertion errors and (b) just generally a very long wait. Also with the AutoIt script, the brackets actually do get inserted at the very start and end of the segment, regardless of the presence of tags.
Another relatively fast method is to use bilingual review and add the brackets to the target segments in DOCX. However, bilingual review can't export filtered segments, so if you want to perform this action on selected segments only, then the bilingual review option isn't really an option.
And Trados 2015 does not have a pseudo-translation option that retains the existing segment content.
Samuel
[Edited at 2016-12-05 15:55 GMT]
| | | | Nora Diaz
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Samuel Murray wrote:
I suppose the expression was just a result of my thinking: "replace the first character with [[ plus the first character, replace the last character with the first character plus ]], and retain everything inbetween". I did not stop and try to make the expression simpler once I wrote it. I suppose I could simply have used ^(.*)$, right?
I see what you mean now, and I think that would make sense for two separate Find and Replace operations, so one where you search for the first character and replace it with [[ plus the first character, then another one where you search for the last character and replace it with the last character plus ]].
So that would be:
Find ^(.)
Replace [[$1
Find (.)$
Replace $1]]
For the entire segment, you could simply use one capturing group for the whole thing, (.*) then replace with the added brackets before and after the backreference.
Find (.*)
Replace [[$1]]
But this doesn't solve your original problems, of course.
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Samuel Murray
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Nora Diaz wrote:
I see what you mean now, and I think that would make sense for two separate Find and Replace operations, so one where you search for the first character and replace it with [[ plus the first character, then another one where you search for the last character and replace it with the last character plus ]].
I actually tried that, but only the first step works. I can't get Trados to add ]] (or }}) to the end of segments.
Oh, and one can't use just "[" or "[[" in the replace field with regex enabled -- it's an invalid replacement pattern. You can use "\[\[", but that adds literally "\[\[" instead of "[[". One can use "{{" in the replace field, though.
But this doesn't solve your original problems, of course.
It would solve more than half of them.
| | | | Nora Diaz
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Samuel Murray wrote:
I actually tried that, but only the first step works. I can't get Trados to add ]] (or }}) to the end of segments.
Oh, and one can't use just "[" or "[[" in the replace field with regex enabled -- it's an invalid replacement pattern. You can use "\[\[", but that adds literally "\[\[" instead of "[[". One can use "{{" in the replace field, though.
Mmm, you're right, very strange!
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Samuel Murray wrote: Nora Diaz wrote:
I see what you mean now, and I think that would make sense for two separate Find and Replace operations, so one where you search for the first character and replace it with [[ plus the first character, then another one where you search for the last character and replace it with the last character plus ]]. I actually tried that, but only the first step works. I can't get Trados to add ]] (or }}) to the end of segments. Oh, and one can't use just "[" or "[[" in the replace field with regex enabled -- it's an invalid replacement pattern. You can use "\[\[", but that adds literally "\[\[" instead of "[[". One can use "{{" in the replace field, though. But this doesn't solve your original problems, of course. It would solve more than half of them.
Unfortunately the regex engine in studio is badly broken. As you found , it won't process [ in the replace with field, neither on its own, nor with an escaping \. That's clearly a bug. Also, it should allow you to simply search for ^ and replace it with [[. Normally replacing the ^ or $ mark with something adds to the beginning/end of the string but this doesn't work in Studio either. If I just enter ^ into the search box it matches every character in the text (but it won't execute any replacements). Also, after trying some of these "odd" operations Studio threw in the towel completely, and no regex searches work now. If I search for (.*) it finds no hits even though this pattern matches literally every string ever written. If I write \1 into the replace box it complains that there is no capturing group in the search box even though there is one.
SDL support, has this been fixed in 2017? Do the developers know of the bugs?
| | | | Nora Diaz
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| Same thing in Studio 2017 | Dec 5, 2016 |
FarkasAndras wrote: Samuel Murray wrote: Nora Diaz wrote:
I see what you mean now, and I think that would make sense for two separate Find and Replace operations, so one where you search for the first character and replace it with [[ plus the first character, then another one where you search for the last character and replace it with the last character plus ]]. I actually tried that, but only the first step works. I can't get Trados to add ]] (or }}) to the end of segments. Oh, and one can't use just "[" or "[[" in the replace field with regex enabled -- it's an invalid replacement pattern. You can use "\[\[", but that adds literally "\[\[" instead of "[[". One can use "{{" in the replace field, though. But this doesn't solve your original problems, of course. It would solve more than half of them. Unfortunately the regex engine in studio is badly broken. As you found , it won't process [ in the replace with field, neither on its own, nor with an escaping \. That's clearly a bug. Also, it should allow you to simply search for ^ and replace it with [
SDL support, has this been fixed in 2017? Do the developers know of the bugs? [/quote]
Farkas,
I confirm all of your findings in Studio 2017, and even searching for ^(.) won't limit the search to the first character of the segment, it keeps highlighting the next character. A question: for the replacement box, should \1 do the same as $1?
In any case, I think this needs to be reported to Support, or at the very least discussed in the SDL Community, as it doesn't seem like SDL is monitoring this forum as much anymore.
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Samuel Murray
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FarkasAndras wrote:
If I just enter ^ into the search box it matches every character in the text (but it won't execute any replacements).
Yes, I've had similar results. For some reason, it matches every character.
Also, after trying some of these "odd" operations Studio threw in the towel completely, and no regex searches work now.
Same thing happened to me. I had to use a task killer to kill Trados 2015, and then restart Trados.
| | | | Nora Diaz
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| Nora Diaz
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| Samuel Murray
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Good to know.
* SDLXLIFF Toolkit 1.1.37 is only available if you own Trados 2014/15
* SDLXLIFF Toolkit 2.7 (which is the one you're referring to) is only available if you own Trados 2017
How does the toolkit work, though? Do you have to have Trados 2017 installed on the computer to be able to use SDLXLIFF Toolkit 2.7? I mean, can I use it on a computer of mine that doesn't have Trados 2017 installed on it?
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| What about studio? | Jan 14, 2017 |
It's good that they're doing something about this, but surely the real solution would be to fix studio itself. Hopefully that's coming too.
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