A way of filtering segments by number of characters

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Hi there, 
 
 I did find regular expression that shows lesser then # of words, but I need it to be more then # of words. I am doing a PEMT job with character limits on the segments. 
 
 Thanks for any help! 
 
 Best regards, 
 Knut

Paul · Accepted Answer

Knut Atle Klausen 
 CADF is actually the ADF in 2021. It was such a popular plugin for users it was adopted by the core product and we don't provide it as an app anymore. 
 Knut Atle Klausen said: I want to see all the segments above 30 characters, so to see how many I need to edit. It would be nice to be able to see how many is above 90 as well 
 How will you know which ones should be 30 and which are 90? Filtering for them is trivial as Kelly noted, the question for me would be how do I know which ones should be 30 and which should be 90? 
 Perhaps another option you could explore is to use the QA check and then you have a good visualization as you work: 
 
 You could also filter on the messages (out of the box ADF):

Paul · Answer

Knut Atle Klausen 
 What's the filetype? Is it a consistent number of words or characters across all segments or is it a different limit for each segment... which is why I'm wondering about the filetype? 
 Also, you mentioned you found an expression checking the number of words, but your job has character limits and not words. Can you explain exactly what you need? I think characters is surely more likely given the variable nature of a word.

Kelly Edward · Answer

CADF, for sure

Paul · Answer

Aubeline Brandamir 
 I think perhaps two things wrong. First the expression: 
 ^, {60,97} $ 
 You have used a comma instead of a dot and you added two spaces. The dot represents a match for any single character that is not a line break character. The spaces just shouldn't be there or you will be attempting to match a space after the first character found and after the last one. The expression should be this: 
 ^.{60,97}$ 
 Secondly, you need to tell the display filter to use regular expressions... so check that box:

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