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Good day, What is a feasible way or [freeware] tool which can be used to find-replace the source data in a big (15kw) sdlxliff file? The changes that are required are simple, like "5mm" -> "5 mm" but they are numerous and randomly scattered in the source text. Thank you.
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mikhailo Local time: 03:52 English to Russian + ...
Any text editor
Jan 12, 2021
Any text editor like Notepad++
xliff - XML plain text file
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Dan Lucas United Kingdom Local time: 01:52 Member (2014) Japanese to English
CleanUp Tasks
Jan 12, 2021
kd42 wrote: What is a feasible way or [freeware] tool which can be used to find-replace the source data in a big (15kw) sdlxliff file?
Search the SDL AppStore for CleanUp Tasks and install it. That will replace text in the source using regexes, and a lot more besides. It works well for me. Read the help and examples carefully.
Dan
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Thanks for coming to help me, guys. I tried both methods and will use MS Word as a text editor for search/replace, because it allows me to limit the range to the essential data, without damaging the rest of it. I am not skilled enough to use Notepad or other text editors and limit the range to the data between certain tags. I do not like the usability and philosophy of Studio plugins, won't use them. Happy translating and thanks again!
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:52 English to Russian
Thank you Dan
Jan 13, 2021
Dan Lucas wrote: Search the SDL AppStore for CleanUp Tasks and install it. That will replace text in the source using regexes, and a lot more besides. It works well for me. Read the help and examples carefully.
I didn't know of that plugin. A very useful feature. Loads of thanks.
@kd42 If you choose to use MS Word, you can use the following regex replacement (with 'Use wildcards' checkbox ticked): Find what: ([0-9])([A-Za-z]) Replace with: \1 \2
This regex will find any number ([0-9]) followed by any letter, either upper or lower case ([A-Za-z]), and replace it with same element number one (\1) followed by space and followed by same element number two (\2). The regex will cover chemical formulas like Na2SO4 => Na2 SO4. Therefore, use it carefully. *** ([0-9]) = \1 ([A-Za-z]) = \2
[Edited at 2021-01-13 22:20 GMT]
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Thanks a lot, Stepan, for reconfirming my approach. Since Studio XLIFF contains two instances of source one of which must not be changed, I plan to apply bold font attribute to the ranges which may be changed, and then limit the find-replace passes to bold characters only.
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Peter Kocvara Slovakia Local time: 02:52 German to Slovak + ...
sdlxliff in text editor?
Nov 20, 2023
Hi there.
I tried to open sdlxliff in text editor like Notepad++ or even MS Word, but got unfortunately for any file only incomprehensible code like this... thanks
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Hi there.
I tried to open sdlxliff in text editor like Notepad++ or even MS Word, but got unfortunately for any file only incomprehensible code like this... thanks
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:52 English to Russian
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Nov 21, 2023
Peter Kocvara wrote: I tried to open sdlxliff in text editor like Notepad++ or even MS Word, but got unfortunately for any file only incomprehensible code like this...
The last line of this code always contains all the segments present in your sdlxliff file. Just press Ctrl+F and search for a word or phrase.
Dan Lucas
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