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Thread poster: Omer Shani
Omer Shani
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Dec 10, 2021

We have several project that contains the following variable: %s or similar ones.
We can't run a usual regex for it turns to be greedy and we are puzzled how to solve it to recognize the variable only, not more not less.
Any ideas?
 
Samuel Murray
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@Omer Dec 10, 2021

Omer Shani wrote:
We can't run a usual regex for it turns to be greedy and we are puzzled how to solve it to recognize the variable only, not more not less.

Nope. MemoQ uses .NET regex, but there isn't anything in it about % going greedy:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-language-quick-reference
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Add Regex tagger as a cascading filter to your import filter Dec 10, 2021

You have an easy way of doing this. When you import, import with options, then add a Regex Tagger filter thus creating a cascading filter. In the Import dialog box, click the Regex tagger filter and enter this in the dialog box:
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The two letters in brackets allow you to also consider %d if you want that. If you have placeholders other than %s or %d, you can add more letters here. I hope this helps!
 
Omer Shani
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Thank you! Dec 10, 2021

Thank you Tomas & Samuel.
Your comments were very helpful

Omer
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Great! Dec 10, 2021

Omer Shani wrote:
Thank you Tomas & Samuel.

You are most welcome. Personally, I find memoQ's approach to Regex a bit confusing because it is handled differently depending on the feature. For instance, the Regex for "%s" in the Autotranslatables feature requires a different syntax.

Mentioning Autotranslatables, this is another area that is extremely useful in the context of localization. I encourage you to have a look! It might save you a lot of time in certain situations!
 
Anthony Rudd
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Regex for %s Dec 11, 2021

%s is not really a regex. By "not really", I mean in regex, a string always matches itself (except when the string contains regex syntactical elements). As such, %s is "greedy" only when the associated operation (possibly implicitly) is "greedy" (such as find and replace all).
How do you want to handle %s?
 


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