How to exclude the block code for translation from a text file

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Here is only a snippet of the text file below, 
 In the following example code block, the IP ranges are different: ---- cluster_A::> network subnet show 
 IPspace: Default Subnet Broadcast Avail/ Name Subnet Domain Gateway Total Ranges --------- ---------------- --------- ------------ ------- --------------- subnet1 192.168.2.0/24 Default 192.168.2.1 10/10 192.168.2.11-192.168.2.20 
 cluster_B::> network subnet show IPspace: Default Subnet Broadcast Avail/ Name Subnet Domain Gateway Total Ranges --------- ---------------- --------- ------------ -------- --------------- subnet1 192.168.2.0/24 Default 192.168.2.1 10/10 192.168.2.21-192.168.2.30 ---- 
 The code block between the start and end ---- need to be excluded for translation, how to do that in the regular expression delimited text filetype?

Daniel Hug · Accepted Answer

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 Hm, this is tricky.I can't see how to do this with a simple regex. 
 I would do this with PowerGrep , where you can grab a section out of a file (defined by Regex) and then apply another Regex search and replace just to that section. 
 So I would grab these sections and replace ^(.*)$ with //$1. That would cost me about 2 minutes. 
 Sorry, I recant and will say henceforth: You can't do this with a simple regex pattern. 
 Daniel

Paul · Answer

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 It would be helpful to see more of the stuff you actually need to translate. Maybe there is something you can hook onto to use as the rule for extraction and ignore everything else. 
 I think you'd need to use the API and build a custom filetype to handle this based on specifically excluding the code block. 
 Or maybe (and I hate to say it!!)... copy the content into MS Word and then use MS Word to set the hidden attribute for the stuff you don't want to translate and handle the file as a word file instead?

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How to exclude the block code for translation from a text file

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