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Does the Terminology Verifier work with regular expressions (regex)

Daniel Kartrud

I am currently trying to find out if the Terminology Verifier in Trados Studio 2017 works with Regular Expressions or if it is a purely literal search. if anyone knows and could let me know, that would be very helpful as I am about to start setting up a fairly large list of terms and would like to know before I waste my time.

As info, I have so far been setting up my QA checker with things that I want to check no matter what, but I need to be able to change out some things based on what I work on, and as far as I can see the easier way is to have several terminology lists that I can change out, instead of making several QA settings that I change around.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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    No it doesn't. The terminology verifier has no UI for entering any kind of expression or search text. It can use picklists for setting forbidden values based on what's in your termbase, and it can check your translations to make sure you are using terms in your termbase or not. That's about it.

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    Hello Paul

    Thank you for your answer.

    I believe you answered my question, but I will throw this in as an extra verification:

    If I set up the terminology list (which I am loading in manually via the "Project Settings -> Language pairs -> Termbases" window) with regular expressions, am I correct in understanding that this will be used as a literal search instead of a regular expression, i.e.:

    Source: Checklist for computer cleaning

    Target: Sjekkliste(n)? for rengjøring av datamaskin

    Will look for a literal "Sjekkliste(n)?" instead of "Sjekkliste" with an optional "n" at the end of it, followed by the rest: " for rengjøring av datamaskin"?

    The reason I am wondering about this is because I have a lot of terms consisting of 2 or more words, where the ending of the 1st or 1st and 2nd change depending on form, amount, and so on. 
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    Hello Paul

    Thank you for your answer.

    I believe you answered my question, but I will throw this in as an extra verification:

    If I set up the terminology list (which I am loading in manually via the "Project Settings -> Language pairs -> Termbases" window) with regular expressions, am I correct in understanding that this will be used as a literal search instead of a regular expression, i.e.:

    Source: Checklist for computer cleaning

    Target: Sjekkliste(n)? for rengjøring av datamaskin

    Will look for a literal "Sjekkliste(n)?" instead of "Sjekkliste" with an optional "n" at the end of it, followed by the rest: " for rengjøring av datamaskin"?

    The reason I am wondering about this is because I have a lot of terms consisting of 2 or more words, where the ending of the 1st or 1st and 2nd change depending on form, amount, and so on. 
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