Amit Dave 

Unknown said:

I have read certain threads about how to deal with .strings file types & was able to extract strings from it but the below type of strings are omitted by SDL & not extracted that text:

"alert.logout.confirmation.message" = "Are you sure you want to logout from \"%@\"?";   (not extracted)

"alert.logout.confirmation.confirm" = "Yes, logout"; (extracted)

This is almost certainly down to the filetype you have created for this.  You need something like this:

Opening Pattern

".+"\s=\s"

Closing Pattern

";

That should pick up what you're after.  Then maybe something like this for the placeholders:

\\"%@\\"

Or... perhaps?

\\".+?\\"

Amit Dave

Unknown said:

opening pattern: "[^"]*"\s*=\s*"(?=[^"]*"\s*;)

This expression is too greedy and the positive lookahead you have used starts to consume the translatable text in your first string until it fails to match at all.  Simplify your expression, perhaps as suggested.

Amit Dave

Unknown said:

This is my document structure:

opening pattern: "[^"]*"\s*=\s*"(?=[^"]*"\s*;)
closing pattern: "\s*;

so what you have mentioned I have to add here...


opening pattern: ".+"\s=\s" "[^"]*"\s*=\s*"(?=[^"]*"\s*;)
closing pattern: "; "\s*;

No.  Don't add the expression I gave you, use it instead!