Every now and then I try to remove a space or non-breaking space via a regex. Unfortunately it does not work in Studio. Why? It works in .Net. Can this be repaired?
Here is an example: I try to remove the space between +/- and a number (eg. + 23 % should be +23 %)
Regex: (?<!\d\s?)([\+-])\s(\d)
Replace with: $1$2
Your best bet is to use the SDLXLFF Toolkit from the appstore. The use of backreferences in Studio search & replace has a bug and won't work. I know it's been worked on so should be fixed in a future update.
Either that or do some 2-step workaround similar to this...
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+ with a unique identifier+\s and replace it with some unique identifier, say PLUS_UNIQUEID-\s and replace it with a different unique identifier, say MINUS_UNIQUEIDPLUS_UNIQUEID and replace it with +MINUS_UNIQUEID and replace it with -I reckon the SDLXLIFF toolkit is preferable!
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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SDLXLFF Toolkit
I had no luck with it because it also replaced the <> brackets of inline tags with their xml counterparts (<, >). Does it always do that?
PLUS_UNIQUEID
The plus isn't really the problem. Eg. replace ([\+\-–])\s(?=\d) with $1 works as well.
Unfortunately it all falls apart as soon as I add the lookbehind.
SDLXLFF Toolkit
I had no luck with it because it also replaced the <> brackets of inline tags with their xml counterparts (<, >). Does it always do that?
PLUS_UNIQUEID
The plus isn't really the problem. Eg. replace ([\+\-–])\s(?=\d) with $1 works as well.
Unfortunately it all falls apart as soon as I add the lookbehind.