How can I filter empty target segment in Studio Editor?

Question

I have a document that need to translate the updated contents. 
 I compared the before/after version with track changes in word and dragged compared document in Studio. 
 By "Community Advanced Display Filter" I searched all source segments with tracked changes. 
 By "copy source to target" the change accepted version can be copied into target segments and the deleted parts will be left as empty segments. 
 
 I need to filter out the empty target segments and extract the rest for translation. 
 How could I do that? Regular Expression search "^$" doesn't work.

Linus Wang · Accepted Answer

Hi All, 
 I tried "Advanced Display Filter 2.0" in Trados Studio 2021, "^S" now can be applied in REGX search.

Paul · Answer

Linus Wang 
 Why don't you use the same filter you used to identify the source segments with track changes and then reverse it? That should leave you with what you need. 
 Alternatively try this as the regex: 
 ^$ 
 That seems to work for me.

Nora Díaz · Answer

Daniel&acute;s answer works, just make sure you: 
 1. Are using the Community Advanced Display Filter 
 2. Check the Regular Expression checkbox 
 3. Place the regex in the target field 
 4. Click Reverse AND click Apply Filter

Alison Field · Answer

Hi Paul , 
 Linus Wang said he already tried ^$ as re regex and it didn't work. 
 However, it works for me with the Advanced filter (doesn't work with the Review display filter though). 
 First, I have deleted some Target segment contents: 
 
 Then I try filtering using ^$ in the Review tab display filter, which doesn't work: 
 
 With even the basic Advanced display filter, ^$ works fine: 
 
 Then, with the Community advanced display filter it also works: 
 
 Thus, if Linus Wang has the 'Regular Expressions' box ticked in his Community Advanced display filter, the software is not behaving as it should, or... 
 Maybe there are 'invisibles' in the Target segments that appear to be empty. This happened to me recently with some invisibles in the Source that had flowed through from an InDesign document so I locked the segments as Untranslated to keep the invisibles out of the TM. This was flagged up as untranslated units and the source was represented in the error message by two boxes, as usually happens when a character that doesn't work in the available font has been used. 
 All the best, 
 Ali

Daniel Hug · Answer

Linus Wang 
 Use the Community Advanced Display FIlter ( https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/community-advanced-display-filter/849/ ). 
 Regex for target segments ".+" 
 Then reverse the filter. 
 
 Daniel

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