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regular expression in Xbench | Try RegexBuddy

Dan Lucas — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:25:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Try RegexBuddy

[quote]kirsty morgan wrote:
Any ideas gratefully received. [/quote]
XBench's regex flavor is POSIX extended (ERE), about which more [url= [url removed] ]here[/url]. That site also has many useful-looking tutorials. However, might I suggest - as an independent but satisfied customer - that you invest just under 30 euro in [url= [url removed] ]RegexBuddy[/url].

I have been using regexes for nearly two decades, starting from when I was doing a lot of Perl in the late 1990s, so I'm not a stranger to this arcane branch of text processing. But I don't use them every day and it's easy to forget the details, so when I'm trying to make up a new regex, unless it's really simple I reach for RegexBuddy first.

I find the [url= [url removed] ]menus, little symbols and text explanations[/url] make it far easier to build up a regex, brick by brick. Then you can test it right there with some text from your document.

Support is top-notch. RegexBuddy includes access to an excellent forum where the developer helps out with regex questions for free and typically replies within 24 hours.

Regards
Dan

regular expression in Xbench | XBench regular expressions tutorial?

kirsty morgan — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:55:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: kirsty morgan
Post title: XBench regular expressions tutorial?

Does anyone know of a tutorial or guide that teaches the basic language of regular expressions as used by XBench? I currently use them to check punctuation differences but would like to find an easy-to-follow tutorial or guide to learn how to write more expressions. Most of the material I have found on regular expressions makes my head spin a little!
Any ideas gratefully received.

regular expression in Xbench | Now it works for me too

Mikhail Zavidin — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:39:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Mikhail Zavidin
Post title: Now it works for me too

[quote]bourriquet wrote:

Thank you all for your contributions. I created a new checklist item with one of the regular expressions in the target column and I get results after selecting "Check ongoing translation..." This is what I wanted, thank you! [/quote]

I have just made it clear: the segments in question in Trados Studio must be with [b]translated[/b] status. Then everything works OK.

regular expression in Xbench | RegEx

Oscar Martin — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:09:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Oscar Martin
Post title: RegEx

Hi,

While [:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+ will find the segments you're looking for, there are some items that must be taken into account:

- When using regular expressions, Xbench evaluates the regex from left to right. That is, if the first element is [:letter:], it will evaluate all segments that contains a sequence of one or more e [:letter:]. If the Xbench project contains a high number of segments, the search may take up to some minutes.
- Search first an element that should be present or not but it is not regex syntax, but a character, a word, etc. For instance, this search can be optimized as
"\." "[:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+"
as a powerseach.

First, it will discard all segments that do not contain a dot. Then it will evaluate 2 sequences of letters separated by a dot instead of a space.

Regards,

Oscar

regular expression in Xbench | now it works

bourriquet — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:53:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: bourriquet
Post title: now it works

Thank you all for your contributions. I created a new checklist item with one of the regular expressions in the target column and I get results after selecting "Check ongoing translation..." This is what I wanted, thank you!

regular expression in Xbench | A correction to my suggestion (and to Pep's)

Riccardo Schiaffino — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:52:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Riccardo Schiaffino
Post title: A correction to my suggestion (and to Pep's)

[quote]pep wrote:

These expressions should both work:

[:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+
[a-z]+\.[a-z]+

[/quote]

Wile [:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+ (or even just [:letter:]\.[:letter:]) works correctly,

[a-z]+\.[a-z]+ (or, for that matter, the regex expression I had suggested: [a-zA-Z]\.[a-zA-Z])

only works for non-accented characters

So the solution to Bourriquet in Xbench should be

[:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+

regular expression in Xbench | Seems to be a RegEx bug

Mikhail Zavidin — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:32:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Mikhail Zavidin
Post title: Seems to be a RegEx bug

[quote]bourriquet wrote:

Could someone help me create a regular expression for Xbench? I need this program to find the mistake where there's a redundant period between words in the target (i.e. "word.word") instead of a space (i.e. "word word"). I don't know much about regular expressions but I heard they could help find mistakes like these. [/quote]

The RegEx I've suggested seems to work in plain text files (including UTF-8). With Cyrillic symbols also. I've tried [b]([а-я]+)=1\.@1[/b].

With Trados Studio 2011's files the Xbench 2.9 behaves weirdly. It doesn't work correctly even with Latin symbols.

I suggest you report a bug to ApSIC. Or may be in Xbench 3.0 it will work as expected because it supports Unicode or so.

regular expression in Xbench | Remember to set the Regular Expression search mode

pep — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:09:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: pep
Post title: Remember to set the Regular Expression search mode

These expressions should both work:

[:letter:]+\.[:letter:]+
[a-z]+\.[a-z]+

but you should set the search mode as Regular Expression.

[Edited at 2015-04-26 13:10 GMT]

regular expression in Xbench | no results so far

bourriquet — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:21:00 +0000
Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: bourriquet
Post title: no results so far

Thank you very much for fast replies.
However, none of these work in Xbench (checked against a Studio file with "word.word" mistake in target) after adding to checklist, but may be I'm doing something wrong.
It would be great if someone could verify themselves if their regular expression works in Xbench based on a Studio file with this kind of mistake included.

[Edited at 2015-04-26 10:22 GMT]

regular expression in Xbench | "A to Z" restricts the search to plain English

Rolf Keller — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 06:50:00 +0000
Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Rolf Keller
Post title: "A to Z" restricts the search to plain English

I propose
([:letter:]+)[:punctuation:]([:letter:]+)

(No XBench here to test it, though.)

regular expression in Xbench | Not sure that is what Bourriquet needs

Riccardo Schiaffino — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 04:11:00 +0000
Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Riccardo Schiaffino
Post title: Not sure that is what Bourriquet needs

[quote]Mikhail Zavidin wrote:

Hi!

[quote]bourriquet wrote:

Could someone help me create a regular expression for Xbench? I need this program to find the mistake where there's a redundant period between words in the target (i.e. "word.word") instead of a space (i.e. "word word"). I don't know much about regular expressions but I heard they could help find mistakes like these. [/quote]

Something like that:

[b]([a-zA-Z0-9]+)=1\.@1[/b]

Hope this helps. [/quote]

Mikahil,

I think that the regular expression you suggest would find not only periods between words (what Bourriquet needs), but also dots inside numbers.

I.e., your regular expression would not only flag

word.word,

but also

12.456,39

I would suggest instead a simple

[a-zA-z]\.[a-zA-z]

regular expression in Xbench | For example

Mikhail Zavidin — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:58:00 +0000
Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: Mikhail Zavidin
Post title: For example

Hi!

[quote]bourriquet wrote:

Could someone help me create a regular expression for Xbench? I need this program to find the mistake where there's a redundant period between words in the target (i.e. "word.word") instead of a space (i.e. "word word"). I don't know much about regular expressions but I heard they could help find mistakes like these. [/quote]

Something like that:

[b]([a-zA-Z0-9]+)=1\.@1[/b]

Hope this helps.

regular expression in Xbench

bourriquet — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:52:00 +0000
Forum: Software applications
Topic: regular expression in Xbench
Poster: bourriquet

Could someone help me create a regular expression for Xbench? I need this program to find the mistake where there's a redundant period between words in the target (i.e. "word.word") instead of a space (i.e. "word word"). I don't know much about regular expressions but I heard they could help find mistakes like these.