I recently saw a presentation about the Regex in MemoQ by Kevin Lossner (at the WTF22 event) and wondered if there is any plug-in for Trados like the Regex Assistant and Regex Library in MemoQ.
I am aware of being able to test out Regexes in Trados by previewing them on files (which is similar to the Regex Assistant), but would love a way (other than my Notepad++ "Regex Cookbook") to store my regexes in Trados.
Hi Michael Bailey ,
I don’t know what the Regex Assistant and Regex Library in MemoQ do (maybe you can post a link?), but I’ll try to answer your specific questions:
Regexes can be saved in several places inside Trados. One of them is Project Settings > Verification > QA Checker 3.0 > Regular Expressions:
You can also set different regexes per each language combination and also in File > Options > Verification > […] and in Project Templates, so the next projects created based on these settings will have regexes already there.
Also, in the Advanced Filter Display you can save and recall regexes for filtering. I said regexes, but in this case it may also include any other settings available in the Advanced Filter Display, such as segments status, tags, colors and so on:
Last, note that Notepad++ regex flavor is not .Net (the one used by Trados Studio), but PCRE (I believe). Both flavors are quite similar, but sometimes a specific regex works only as expected in one of them. Take that into account…
Hi Michael Bailey ,
I don’t know what the Regex Assistant and Regex Library in MemoQ do (maybe you can post a link?), but I’ll try to answer your specific questions:
Regexes can be saved in several places inside Trados. One of them is Project Settings > Verification > QA Checker 3.0 > Regular Expressions:
You can also set different regexes per each language combination and also in File > Options > Verification > […] and in Project Templates, so the next projects created based on these settings will have regexes already there.
Also, in the Advanced Filter Display you can save and recall regexes for filtering. I said regexes, but in this case it may also include any other settings available in the Advanced Filter Display, such as segments status, tags, colors and so on:
Last, note that Notepad++ regex flavor is not .Net (the one used by Trados Studio), but PCRE (I believe). Both flavors are quite similar, but sometimes a specific regex works only as expected in one of them. Take that into account…
Thanks Jesús Prieto for this - I will dig out my notes from the presentation to try to see exactly what it was that most caught my eye about it - my instant "wow" was the ability to save regexes in the library with searchable text labels and search them and insert them into the source/target boxes from within MemoQ, which I was not aware about how to do it in Trados.
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