Looking for a regular expression to catch everything between < and > Thread poster: Hans Lenting
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Hi,
I've imported an SDL TMX and I get lots of tags in the language pairs:
etc.
Can somebody please help me to define (non greedy) regular expression to replace all tags between < and > with nothing?
I've come this far:
| | | | Michael Beijer 
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:58
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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| Csaba Ban
Hungary
Local time: 14:58
Member (2002)
English to Hungarian
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| MemoQ 5 does this beautifully | Dec 9, 2011 |
MemoQ 5 offers a great and easy solution for turning such regular expressions into internal tags.
They offer a 45-day free trial. BTW, now the software package is priced at a 40% discount.
good luck,
Csaba
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The regular expression to find tags is : <&>
I think it is a little bit dangerous to do it like this (replace all tags with nothing based on this regular expression) it may have some side effects if you've real < or > characters meaning really "lower or greater than" in your text...
Best regards,
Jean-Marc
[Edited at 2011-12-09 11:31 GMT]
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Adam Podstawczynski (X)
Local time: 14:58
Polish to English
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| Your tags don't show :) | Dec 9, 2011 |
Show the examples first, because they are invisible in your posting.
However, off the top of my head such an expression would go as follows:
s/\<.?\>//
This is a Perl-like, non-greedy expression which you needed. Need a Word-like one? It will look a bit different, please let me know.
[Edited at 2011-12-09 11:16 GMT]
| | | | Adam Podstawczynski (X)
Local time: 14:58
Polish to English
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| On second thoughts | Dec 9, 2011 |
This should read
s/<.+?>//
I'm writing from memory, can't check now.
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If Transit does have regex support, I find the idea of switching to MemoQ for this reason... peculiar.
Anyway, this should work:
<[^>]*>
This is essentially the same as the non-greedy expression with the ? above, only I find it a bit more transparent, easier to adapt and more certain to work in more regex engines.
[] stands for character group, [^] stands for 'all characters except', and * stands for 'any number of'. So the expression translates to:... See more If Transit does have regex support, I find the idea of switching to MemoQ for this reason... peculiar.
Anyway, this should work:
<[^>]*>
This is essentially the same as the non-greedy expression with the ? above, only I find it a bit more transparent, easier to adapt and more certain to work in more regex engines.
[] stands for character group, [^] stands for 'all characters except', and * stands for 'any number of'. So the expression translates to: <, then any number of characters that aren't >, then >. If Transit can replace multiple regex matches in the same TU, then it should be enough to run this once.
[^] is of course much better for this sort of thing than trying to match every conceivable character positively. For instance, not even characters like éáőúóü are covered by [a-z]. They are covered by \w if the regex engine has \w (which I believe should capture all letters, all numbers and _) but even then, there are a myriad special characters you are never going to remember.
[Edited at 2011-12-09 13:00 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER | Want to try it in Transit first | Dec 15, 2011 |
Hi Michael and thanks for the suggestion. I want to try it in Transit first.
Transit NXT your one stop solution .
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Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER | Don't compare a Ferrari with a Trabant | Dec 15, 2011 |
Csaba Ban wrote:
MemoQ 5 offers a great and easy solution for turning such regular expressions into internal tags.
They offer a 45-day free trial. BTW, now the software package is priced at a 40% discount.
good luck,
Csaba
Thanks Csaba, you're surely not comparing Transit NXT with MemoQ?
They are nice guys at Kilgray but they'll have a long way to go to offer all the beauties that Transit NXT offers.
| | | | Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER | Greater than/lesser than don't show | Dec 15, 2011 |
Adam Podstawczynski wrote:
This should read
s///
I'm writing from memory, can't check now.
I had already written to Proz Support that they should fix display of Greater than/lesser than ASAP. I had forgotten that, now the tags I've posted don't show up.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it. Hmm, invalid syntax, I get.
Find: «machine123#4!!»
With: «.+» doesn't work either ...
Ah, probably this is what I need (like suggested in another reply here):
«&»
(Where « is greater than and » is smaller than)
Hans
[Edited at 2011-12-15 13:08 GMT]
| | | | Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER | Yep that is the one | Dec 15, 2011 |
Warlock wrote:
The regular expression to find tags is :
I think it is a little bit dangerous to do it like this (replace all tags with nothing based on this regular expression) it may have some side effects if you've real < or > characters meaning really "lower or greater than" in your text...
Best regards,
Jean-Marc
[Edited at 2011-12-09 11:31 GMT]
Thanks for this one.
Please tell me, how do you insert « and » to show up in your message?
Hans
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Hans Lenting wrote: Adam Podstawczynski wrote:
This should read
s///
I'm writing from memory, can't check now. I had already written to Proz Support that they should fix display of Greater than/lesser than ASAP. I had forgotten that, now the tags I've posted don't show up. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it. Hmm, invalid syntax, I get. Find: «machine123#4!!» With: «.+» doesn't work either ... Ah, probably this is what I need (like suggested in another reply here): «&» (Where « is greater than and » is smaller than)
There's no need to write to technical support as there is nothing for them to fix. The forum software parses tags in < ... > as HTML. If you want them to show up, use < and > as I did in my post above.
As to your problem, Transit's regex engine probably doesn't know non-greedy ?. Try the solution I suggested above.
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| Don't think so | Dec 15, 2011 |
Warlock wrote:
I think it is a little bit dangerous to do it like this (replace all tags with nothing based on this regular expression) it may have some side effects if you've real < or > characters meaning really "lower or greater than" in your text...
The source text seems to be some sort of tagged format, which means that "real" < and > characters will be encoded as character entities (< and >) and won't get caught in the crossfire.
| | | | | Displaying < and > on the forum | Dec 15, 2011 |
Hans Lenting wrote: Warlock wrote:
The regular expression to find tags is : <&>
I think it is a little bit dangerous to do it like this (replace all tags with nothing based on this regular expression) it may have some side effects if you've real < or > characters meaning really "lower or greater than" in your text...
Best regards,
Jean-Marc
[Edited at 2011-12-09 11:31 GMT] Thanks for this one. Please tell me, how do you insert « and » to show up in your message? Hans
Hans,
To display lower and greater signs you have to wrote them as HTML entities.
Regards,
Jean-Marc
| | | | msoutopico
Ireland
Local time: 13:58
English to Galician
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For the regexp in Transit NXT, I would use
<#([!>]+)0>
and replace with
<#0>
However, I don't see why you would need to do that in Transit.
Cheers, Manuel
[Edited at 2012-03-28 11:00 GMT]
[Edited at 2012-03-28 11:01 GMT]
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