Autosuggest wrongly suggests first word of segment

Question

I have set up Regex Autosuggest to recognize brands and names in capital letters using the following: 
 Regex pattern: [A-Z][a-z]+ 
 Replace pattern: $0 
 The problem is, the first common word of each segment which is, of course, capitalized is recognized. It is not a big problem per se, I could: 
 1. Just ignore it 
 or 
 2 Use Variables instead - making a list of brands and companies under a name tag called companies and use the following: 
 Regex pattern: (#Companies#) 
 Replace pattern: $0 
 but the point was to be able for Autosuggest to recognize brands/products/companies automatically when it is placed within a segment without having to populate my list of Companies variables. 
 Any thought? 
 PS: I assume "Regex pattern: [A-Z][a-z]+" is the culprit.

Nora Díaz · Answer

Hi Olivier, 
 
I use the following expression for proper nouns, excluding the first capitalized word in a segment: 
 
(?<!^)\b[A-Z]\w+\b 
 
Of course, this has the opposite effect of what you describe and if you actually want the first word in a segment, it won't be included in the Regex Match AutoSuggest Provider's matches.

Paul · Answer

Hi Olivier den Hartigh , 
 
There is no way for anything to just recognise brands/products/companies without there being a list somewhere for reference. Regex is a workaround for this but carries with it the likelihood of false positives as you work. I think your options are probably these: 
 
- use the variable list in the Rehex AutoSuggest provider as you suggested 
- add them to your termbase as you work (probably more efficient as no editing is required to add them to your list) 
- add them to your TM variable list and then you might get advantages of pretranslation with the correct names too

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Hi Olivier, This regex (a variation of Nora's regex) may help you to match company names like Company Name Ltd ((?<!^)\b[A-Z]\w+\b *)+ 
 I haven't tested it, sorry. So if it does match non-title words, try the following regex (it forces the case sensitive mode): 
 (?-i)((?<!^)\b[A-Z]\w+\b *)+ 
 Good luck!

Paul · Answer

Hi Olivier den Hartigh 
 
I wonder why you couldn't find it? Anyway it's here: 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../

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Autosuggest wrongly suggests first word of segment