Segmentation after full stop or line break on an already translated json file

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Good morning, Apart from my translations, I've been asked recently to do reviews of json files that already include their translation so that I can edit and update the content to my TM. It seems that, since the translation is already filled, Trados "blocks" it and doesn't do the normal segmentation that I would need for my translation memories. This is how it looks like: 
 I would need to have a new segment every single time there is a full stop or a line break. I've tried by adding a TM that has segmentation rules and I've checked on File>Options>Filetypes>JSON but I can't find nothing that matches what I need, so I'm afraid I'll need your help. Thank you in advance, Noa

Paul · Accepted Answer

Noa Gallego 
 The easiest way to tackle this is probably this... maybe other ways... but this is how I would do it if I had to address it right now: 
 
 open the json file in a text editor 
 save it with the name source.json
 
 search and replace this string: ^\s+"target".+?
 with nothing 
 save the file

open the original json and save it with the name target.json
 
 search and replace this: ^\s+"source".+?
 with nothing 
 search and replace this object: "target" with this: "source" 
 save the file

Now you have two json files. Both containing a single language and both with only one translatable object called "source". One has a FR "source" and the other an ES "source". This means you can now align these two files with a single filetype setting that extracts the "source" object. 
 When you finish aligning the FR with the ES you will be able to update into an FR-ES translation memory. 
 Finally you take the original json file containing both source and target and search replace this: 
 ("target":\s+).+?(,
) 
 With this: 
 $1""$2 
 Now you have a json file you can open in Trados Studio with your filetype that will segment properly and when you pre-translate from the TM you created above the target will be populated so you can review it and finally save the file. 
 Might sound complicated, but in my head this would be the most straight forward way to go.

Paul · Answer

Noa Gallego 
 I added a quick video to explain in case this looks overly complicated:

Paul · Answer

Noa Gallego 
 I think a bit more information is needed here. If the translation is already filled I assume this means you are not opening a JON file, but rather you are opening an xliff or sdlxliff? This being the case the segmentation is already complete and is determined by mark up in the xliff. 
 If this is the case then perhaps you can save the target file, and also the source, so you have the actual json files. Then align them to get a TM based on segmentation the way you'd prefer to have it, and finally create a new project from the source json file and pretranslate from your new TM. 
 Essentially I think the problem seems to be coming from how the project was originally created.

Paul · Answer

Noa Gallego 
 ok... 
 Noa Gallego said: This configuration is not the Trados default one: 
 Not just the configuration! This is an app from SuperText, one we don't actually have on the appstore at all at the moment... although I wish we did. I really like their implementation of the JSON filetype as it's a lot better than the out of the box solution. 
 So I think your problem is going to be related to what I said here: 
 Paul said: once the target has been translated it's unlikely you'll get a fully resegmented file anyway because the software is based on source segmentation and not target. So I would imagine any filetype you have that was capable of managing this resegmentation in the editor would probably dump all the target in one segment anyway...or simply not resegment if the translation is present. 
 So this means that to do what you want you need to do this: 
 Paul said: save the target file, and also the source, so you have the actual json files. Then align them to get a TM based on segmentation the way you'd prefer to have it, and finally create a new project from the source json file and pretranslate from your new TM.

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Segmentation after full stop or line break on an already translated json file

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