We really like the new filtering option introduced in 2021 (and also in the Community advanced display filter for 2019). But there is one thing that we haven’t discovered how to do and that we often need to do: Filter after empty segments. Is there any way to do that? And ideally also insert a specific content (e.g, a space) into all segments that correspond to your filtering.
Typically empty segments would be "Not Translated":
So easily filtered. But sometimes they may be empty and not have the status "Not Translated" in which case it now becomes trickier. So here you could search for a regex like this in the target:
^$
So also not too tricky.
And ideally also insert a specific content (e.g, a space) into all segments that correspond to your filtering.
That should be simple... or so I thought. But it's actually not simple because you can't replace the results of a search that finds nothing, with something.
So I have a question here... why is this important?
Tagging two people I'm pretty sure mentioned this in the past...
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Typically empty segments would be "Not Translated":
So easily filtered. But sometimes they may be empty and not have the status "Not Translated" in which case it now becomes trickier. So here you could search for a regex like this in the target:
^$
So also not too tricky.
And ideally also insert a specific content (e.g, a space) into all segments that correspond to your filtering.
That should be simple... or so I thought. But it's actually not simple because you can't replace the results of a search that finds nothing, with something.
So I have a question here... why is this important?
Tagging two people I'm pretty sure mentioned this in the past...
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear?
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Hi Paul, Elevate Autumn 2021,
Interesting. Although the regex works fine in either display filter, it doesn't work in the Find (or Replace) dialog. It doesn't even FIND a target segment containing nothing, using ^$:
I didn't know that. Any other regex I've used in the Find tool has worked OK. For example, a search for ^\s$ works just fine at finding a segment with only a space in it.
Hmmmm! Let me have a think about this...
All the best,
Ali 
One example, that should search for repeated words, matches all words
Another example I had seems to have been fixed.
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