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Enable regular expressions for TM Filter conditions

Dear SDL Community,

With the release of Trados Studio 2019 came the ability to use regular expressions in the TM Filter:

Trados Studio TM Filter dialog box showing the inability to use regular expressions, with 'Use regular expressions' option circled in red indicating it is not selectable.

However, it is not possible to use regEx in the conditions for the filter. If for example I would like to export only the segments which contain digits, I basically have to create 10 conditions, instead of entering the value \d:

Export Options window in Trados Studio with the 'Add Condition' dropdown menu open, showing options like 'Contains', 'Equals', 'Starts with', but lacking a regular expression option, highlighted in red.

 I can think of many more examples where using a regEx for the first four operations would be useful.

Kind regards,

 

Bart Van Maele

Localization Tools Specialist

YAMAGATA EUROPE

 

Bart Van Maele