How to find paragraphs missing periods

Question

I have a large document in which some of the paragraphs have final sentences which are missing periods. For example: 
 
 The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of the family. Cats are commonly kept as house pets but can also be farm cats or feral cats; the feral cat ranges freely and avoids human contact. Domestic cats are valued by humans for companionship and their ability to kill small rodents. About 60 cat breeds are recognized by various cat registries 
 
 In MS Word I could find them using wildcards: [!.^13 ]^13 
 How can I do this in Trados Studio using regular expressions?

Paul · Answer

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 An interesting question since Trados Studio normally segments by sentence and not paragraph, so a simple check would find every segment within a period at the end. So to be able to handle your specific question you would need to do two things: 
 
 Use paragraph segmentation via a Translation Memory so that each segment was actually a paragraph and not a sentence. 
 Then apply a simple regex like this perhaps? ^.*[^.]$ 
 
 I didn't test this in Studio but I think it'll do the trick. Main thing is to make sure your file is segmented by paragraph and not sentence.

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How to find paragraphs missing periods