Aurélie Machut 

You could use the SDLXLIFF Toolkit.  It's not a batch task, but you can use it to find replace in source across every file in your project in one go.  Regex should also work... perhaps you can share a sample file if it doesn't?

https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/77

Hello Paul 

Thanks for this very quick answer. I'll try that.

All the best,

Aurélie

Aurélie Machut 

You’ll be able to replace these ↵ returns, not the regular returns, because the XLIFF is segmented (the following is a mockup done in Word, but the concept is the same):

If you have issues of the kind of the first column (you see each line in a separate segment in Editor, but you’d like to have one single segment with the text Here are My Files), you’ll need to remove returns in InDesign, because there is nothing you can do in Trados Studio. I’ve been there and I guess this is your real issue, right?

On the other hand, if your issue is related to the second column (you see the sentence consisting of 4 lines in one single segment in Editor), I've tried the app Paul mentioned with the following settings, but I only damaged the XLIFF:

Paul I've tried other regexes, but none worked:

• (?<!\r)\n
• (?<!\r)\n(?!\r)

I don’t know if there is a way with the Toolkit app, but I stopped here, because I wouldn’t call issues the issues re. second column of my screenshot above. You’ll see ↵ characters in source, yeah, but you don’t need to type returns in Target.

FYI, I've managed to delete these returns ↵ it in Notepad++ using this regex: (?<!\r)\n

But as I said, this may be not your real issue…