You could try this:

RegEx source: (\d+)x

RegEx target: $1

Condition: Grouped search expression - report if source matches but not the target

That will give you a warning if the number is different.

I would also disable the original source of the errors, e.g. Numbers Verifier to prevent it from throwing warnings because of the missing x.

You could try this:

RegEx source: (\d+)x

RegEx target: $1

Condition: Grouped search expression - report if source matches but not the target

That will give you a warning if the number is different.

I would also disable the original source of the errors, e.g. Numbers Verifier to prevent it from throwing warnings because of the missing x.

Hey Nora Díaz,

Thanks for such a prompt help. It worked perfectly!

Would you mind also telling if there is a way to add a rule that allows thousand separators in target language (source's isn't using any) in those "x" cases? We're using "." (period) in this project. Example:

Source: 3200x
Target: 3.200

(the "Verify" is still highlighting those)

Try this for the source:

(\d*\.?\d+)x

Guess it didn't work, it still highlighting the same strings I mentioned before (with the periods separating thousands). I wish I could understand RegEx better to make it right.

Thanks a lot for the tips though, Nora. The first one certainly will be very useful already.

Best regards

Hi Marcus,

Maybe you can share a screenshot of the errors you're seeing? Are they coming from the QA regex check or from somewhere else?

Marcus,

This was my mistake, I didn't think it through. Of course there's no thousands separator in the source, so this wouldn't work.

I'll see if I can come up with something that will work.

In the meantime it's probably best to reset the regex check to what you had originally.

Oh, ok, Nora. No worries about it.

Thanks a lot for the attention and all the help.

Hi Marcus,

I've had a bit of time now to look at this. If you want to exclude the warnings for numbers with four or more digits, you can try the following instead of the original rule:

Regex source: (\d{1,3})x

Regex target: $1

Condition: Grouped search expression – report if source matches but not the target.

This will only match numbers that have up to three digits, thus excluding longer numbers.

I was trying to think of the best way to check the numbers with thousands separators, to warn you if the numbers were different in source and target. I thought the easiest thing would be to do the opposite, and actually warn you if the numbers were identical, i.e., when the thousands separator was missing in the target, but I couldn't get it to work. 

This is what I had:

Regex source: (\d{4,})x

Regex target: $1

Condition: Grouped search expression – report if source and target matches.

Hopefully someone will see what I'm missing and give you the right regex to achieve this!

Hi Nora Díaz,

Thanks a lot for taking your time to help me, I really appreciate it. I'll keep using the first of all, it is already helping me a lot with the ongoing project.

If someone brings another idea I'll give it a try, but for now it's great already.

Thanks again. Cheers!