A small request on a regex rule

Question

I entered a simple rule into Trados Studio 2022: 
 Regex target: \s\. 
 I was hoping that Trados will show me segments with a space preceding a full stop, yet this rule also matches a Tag preceding a full stop. 
 
 I have also tried to enter a rule that shows me a match if I mistakenly enter a space after an opening bracket: 
 \(\s 
 but here again I get a lot of false positives, i.e. a lot of positives with a Tag that show up after the opening bracket. Is there any possibility to exclude those segments with Tags to show up during the check? Does regex regard Tags as spaces? 
 Thank you for considering my request.

Paul · Accepted Answer

Iga Nowacka Jerzy Czopik 
 There is a way you can achieve this with the advanced display filter. So if you start with this sample: 
 
 In order to filter on segments with a space preceding a full stop you could do this: 
 (?<=\s)\. 
 As Jerzy mentioned this won't work because segment #4 should not be picked up and it is: 
 
 But if you use the Advanced Display Filter to search in tag content then it will be able to recognise something is there: 
 
 So now you get this: 
 
 And this is probably what you want. 
 You can use a similar logic for your bracket.

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A small request on a regex rule

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