Character position based translation possible?

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Hi all, 
 I have 2 inherited files that have their origin in the computational Middle Ages (Fortran, punch cards -- really!) and look like this: INF INF INF Spalte 10 bis 12 = Darstellung INF Uxx = &Uuml;berschrift INF PKT = Punktdarstellung INF LIN = Liniendarstellung INF FLA = Fl&auml;chendarstellung INF TEX = Textdarstellung INF EBE = Speicherebene INF FBM = Fahrbahnmarkierung INF BSC = B&ouml;schungsschraffen INF Spalte 14 bis 23 = Fachbedeutung INF Spalte 25 bis ... = Text INF INF LV U00 Lageplan LV U01 RAS-Verm 1. Gestaltung der Pl&auml;ne LV U02 1.4 Gitternetz, Rahmen und Nordpfeil LV U03 1.4.1 Gitterkreuz / Planrahmen LV 39 PKT 0719.0000 1.4.1 Gitterkreuz LV 39 EBE 0719.0000 1.4.1 Gitterkreuz LV 40 LIN 0719.0000 1.4.1 Gitternetzlinien LV 40 EBE 0719.0000 1.4.1 Gitternetzlinien LV 40 LIN 0719.0001 Schneiderahmen / Faltmarkierung LV 40 EBE 0719.0001 Schneiderahmen / Faltmarkierung LV 40 LIN 0719.0002 Heftrand LV 40 EBE 0719.0002 Heftrand LV 40 LIN 0719.0003 Koordinatenrahmen LV 40 EBE 0719.0003 Koordinatenrahmen LV 40 LIN 0719.0004 Innenrahmen LV 40 EBE 0719.0004 Innenrahmen LV 42 TEX 0719.0005 Gitternetzbeschriftung LV 42 EBE 0719.0005 Gitternetzbeschriftung 
 These files get written to (lousy serialized XML) at run time and trying to align these XMLs was ... not funny. 
 One file is 75,000 lines, the other 50,000 lines. 
 So my question would be: can Passolo deal with a format that basically says "treat everything starting at character position 25 to line end as text"? 
 Any help that would save me from making an XML Diff of these files in order to align the existing translations would be VERY MUCH aprreciated. 
 Greetings, 
 Franz-Josef

Achim Herrmann · Answer

Yes. You need to create a text file parsing rule, using a regular expression like .{25} that allows you can exactly read 25 arbitrary characters.

Franz-Josef Knelangen · Answer

OK, got it - I defined Resource tags, I have to define String tags. Did it, and now it works.

Franz-Josef Knelangen · Answer

Just for the record, if anyone stumbles upon a similar problem: 
 
 The 2 first lines exclude the comment lines (beginning with "INF" or "VER"). 
 The string definition groups the 1st 23 characters and separates them form the "rest to EOL". 
 The nice thing is - slowly begin to like Passolo! - this feature: 
 
 This sets the first substring as ID for the following translatable text which made a perfect alignment of that new file with it's localized grandmother possible: 
 
 12.437 from 4.548 words pretranslated through alignment - not bad, not bad at all :-) ! 
 Thanks again, Achim, for putting me on that REGEX train. 
 Cheers, FJK

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Character position based translation possible?

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