One takeaway from a blogpost by Nora Díaz is the use of the "pipe" in RegEx

http://noradiaz.blogspot.com/2019/11/regular-expressions-for-translators_12.html

so you should be able to do a RegEx involving 

click|clicks|clicking|clicked or maybe even click(s|ing|ed)

Thanks for this! I don't know if it's the most concise version(!), but this works:
(c|C)(lic|LIC)(k|K|ks|KS|ked|KED|king|KING) [^o]

Hayley

Hayley

Maybe use this to find the click variants in any case:

(?i)click[^\s]+

Hi Paul,

I suspected there must be a more concise version...! There's a slight problem though. I tried this and it doesn't pick up anything with just "click" (clicks, clicked and clicking are all ok) - see screenshot below. I think this is because [^\s]+ means one or more non-space characters(?)

Can you suggest a modification?

Hayley

Hi Paul,

I suspected there must be a more concise version...! There's a slight problem though. I tried this and it doesn't pick up anything with just "click" (clicks, clicked and clicking are all ok) - see screenshot below. I think this is because [^\s]+ means one or more non-space characters(?)

Can you suggest a modification?

Hayley

(?i)click[^\s]* - Paul requested at least one character attached to "click" by using + as quantifier, which means one or more. * means zero or more. So try this instead.

Actually, I may have got there:

(?i)click[^\s]* [^o]

Although I've now realised this wouldn't catch anything where the second words starts with an "o", like "Click Open".

Hayley

Oh sorry Jerzy Czopik I didn't see you'd replied in the meantime.

Hayley

Hayley said:

Although I've now realised this wouldn't catch anything where the second words starts with an "o", like "Click Open".

So what exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Partly a real example (client wants "click on XYZ" rather than "click XYZ" in software user manuals), partly just trying to learn some RegEx...!

May have got there though:

(?i)click[^\s]* \b(?!on\b)\w+

Which I believe means: "click", "clicks", "clicked" and "clicking" (case insensitive) must always be followed by the word "on" (case insensitive).

Hayley

Hayley

Or just put this into the community advanced display filter:

(?i)click[^\s]*\s(?!on)

That will filter all segments that contain any of the click stuff that is not followed by on (in any case).  Then you can correct them.

If you trust the results you could also search for this:

(?i)(click[^\s]*)\s(?!on)(\w+)

Replace with this:

$1 on $2

Although you might want to do this more carefully and pay attention to the case so that the word "on" can use the correct case in the replace.