Amandine Léonard

What version of Studio are you using?  Reason I ask is because in 2021 this should be possible, but for other versions you'll need a workaround.

Thank you for your answer, Paul. My version is 2017 SR1. What is a possible workaround?

Thank you for your answer, Paul. My version is 2017 SR1. What is a possible workaround?

Amandine Léonard

What is your source language for this?  I'm trying with Dutch, based on your other post, and the problem I have is that this date format isn't recognised by Studio as being correct at all:

This of course will lead to problems since the date is seen as three separate numbers as opposed to being a date.  It feels a like a bug in 2017 though as the date substitution should be fine based on what's available in the settings.  So I tested in 2021 where it will work correctly:

The fact 2017 behaves the way it does make workarounds quite tricky too, unless they are date only segments, in which case the workaround is simple... just copy source to target.  But for segments with dates mixed into the sentences it's a little harder.

So I then went back into 2017 to try something and the interesting thing is it's now working.  I think this may be because in 2021 I can change the order in which the date recognition should work.  I did that so it worked in 2021 and this change seems to have been reflected in 2017 when I use the same TM.  Interesting.

However... I digress as you don't have 2021.  So, your workarounds are these seeing as you seem to be getting some date recognition even if it's not what you want:

1. allow Studio to do it's thing and search replace afterwards.  This would be by far the best solution I think as it should avoid date transposition errors.  So search for this using regular expressions:
   (\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)
   Replace with this:
   $1/$2/$3
2. But you could also try using the Regex Autosuggest provider from the appstore.  This will work nicely but only interactively.  So autopropagation won't work:
   https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/regex-match-autosuggest-provider/412/
3. Or the terminjector which will work with autopropagation:
   https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/terminjector/759/