Does anyone know of a regex that can be used to add a trailing space to every segment in a file in Studio?

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I'm trying to find a regex that will be capable of adding a trailing space at the end of every segment in a file in Studio. Does anyone know of a regular expression that would do the trick? Thanks!

Anthony Rudd · Accepted Answer

Find what: ^(.*)$ Replace with: $1# where # should be replaced with a space (blank) should work. Caveat: For some reason, Studio 2019 Find/Replace handles the first segment incorrectly and so must be corrected manually.

Anthony Rudd · Answer

The variant to skip any multiple spaces at the end of the string ^(.*?)\s*$

Raphaël Toussaint · Answer

If you want to avoid having more than one space at the end of the segment in case there is already one, try this ( without the quotes ): 
 
 Search: " ([^ ])$ " Any character but a normal space before the end of line in a capturing group 
 Replace: " $1 " Backreference to last character from search capturing group followed by a normal space 
 
 I also tried to search with a negative lookbehind " (?<! )$ ", but it does not seem to work in Studio (but works fine in Notepad++), unless I am missing something.

Anthony Rudd · Answer

A more efficient and simpler solution: (\S)$ with the above Replace string 
 This adds a space to be last character of the segment, unless it is already a whitespace 
 The reverse situation, namely to remove all trailing spaces, can be matched with the regex (\s*)$ with a null (empty) Replace string

Trados Studio > 5. Regex and XPath

Does anyone know of a regex that can be used to add a trailing space to every segment in a file in Studio?

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