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Studio 2015: Checking for Trailing Spaces via QA?
Thread poster: Stefan Keller
Stefan Keller
Stefan Keller  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 23:05
English to German
Jul 6, 2015

Hi all,

I notice that in SDLXLIFF files that were exported from World Server (a file type I'm regularly working on) quite a lot of segments have trailing spaces. Obviously, these are required, because I found out by accident that removing them in the target leads to no space between sentences.

Is there a way in QA checker to automatically check if the target segment ends in a space when the source segment does, and throw an error if it does not? I can of course search m... See more
Hi all,

I notice that in SDLXLIFF files that were exported from World Server (a file type I'm regularly working on) quite a lot of segments have trailing spaces. Obviously, these are required, because I found out by accident that removing them in the target leads to no space between sentences.

Is there a way in QA checker to automatically check if the target segment ends in a space when the source segment does, and throw an error if it does not? I can of course search manually, but this is very time consuming.

So, what I'd need is to check for "[any punctuation][space][end of segment]". Is this possible?

Thanks and best regards,
Stefan ▲ Collapse
 
_stephan
_stephan  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 23:05
English to German
RegEx Jul 6, 2015

Hi Stefan,

you can add a Regular Expression rule like this:

RegEx source: \s$
RegEx target: \s$
Condition: Report if source matches but not the target

Instead of \s you can also just type a space.

On a related note: In WorldServer, QA Checker profiles depend on the project type. In my particular case, most of the projects I deal with don't even have a project type assigned to them, so I always use the Apply Project Template plugin i... See more
Hi Stefan,

you can add a Regular Expression rule like this:

RegEx source: \s$
RegEx target: \s$
Condition: Report if source matches but not the target

Instead of \s you can also just type a space.

On a related note: In WorldServer, QA Checker profiles depend on the project type. In my particular case, most of the projects I deal with don't even have a project type assigned to them, so I always use the Apply Project Template plugin in Studio to quickly update QA rules and other settings.

Stephan ▲ Collapse
 
Stefan Keller
Stefan Keller  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 23:05
English to German
TOPIC STARTER
THANK YOU!!! Jul 6, 2015

Hi Stephan,

Thanks so much, works like a charm.

Am I interpreting this correctly? A "$" is the reg-ex character for "end of segment marker"?

Best regards,
Stefan

[Edited at 2015-07-06 10:05 GMT]
 
_stephan
_stephan  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 23:05
English to German
RegEx Jul 6, 2015

Glad to hear it.

Technically it's "end of text" since RegEx doesn't understand the concept of segments, but in the end it's all the same.


Stephan
 
Mateja Logar
Mateja Logar  Identity Verified
Slovenia
Local time: 23:05
Member (2009)
German to Slovenian
+ ...
It works, even in 2020 May 28, 2020

My fellow translators,


I had the same problem, but luckily, I wasn't the first one with it. I found your solution and it worked.


Thank you, guys. Vielen vielen Dank.

Mateja
 
Edwige Thomas
Edwige Thomas
France
Local time: 23:05
English to French
+ ...
Does not work with Trados 2022 May 2

I have the same issue as Stefan and tried the RegEx rule in the QA checker and it doesn't work.
When I click on "Verify", Trados does not show those missing trailing spaces and when I open the RegEx rule again, what I typed simply disapeared...

I came quite far in my big translation job and can't add those trailing spaces manually, so I'm quite running out of ideas now.
 
Stepan Konev
Stepan Konev  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 00:05
English to Russian
Regex for Missing Trailing Spaces May 3

Edwige Thomas wrote:
Does not work with Trados 2022
What steps do you take to achieve that? Do you start from Project Settings or Options? Do you click Action - Add item after you fill out the form?


[Edited at 2025-05-03 21:32 GMT]
 


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