How to find/replace text with brackets in Trados 2015
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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Jun 12, 2017

G'day everyone

I need to replace "(foo" with "(bar" in a Trados 2015 project. However, when I try to add "(foo" to the find/replace dialog in Trados, it shows up in red, and the "find" and "replace" buttons remain grey. Adding e.g. a backslash before the bracket does make those buttons active, but then the search finds nothing. How can I perform this replacement in Trados 2015?

Thanks
Samuel


 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Removing " " ? Jun 12, 2017

Samuel Murray wrote:

I need to replace "(foo" with "(bar" in a Trados 2015 project. However, when I try to add "(foo" to the find/replace dialog in Trados, it shows up in red, and the "find" and "replace" buttons remain grey. Adding e.g. a backslash before the bracket does make those buttons active, but then the search finds nothing. How can I perform this replacement in Trados 2015?


I am recently familiar with Google Search. I find that adding " " before and after a string gives special accents to search function.
Removing " " will do the job, won't it?

Dr. Soonthon Lupkitaro
Bangkok


 
Samuel Murray
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I do not use quotes in my search Jun 12, 2017

Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote:
I need to replace "(foo" with "(bar" in a Trados 2015 project.

Removing " " will do the job, won't it?


Let me rephrase:

I need to replace this:

(foo

with this:

(bar

in a Trados 2015 project.


 
Ricki Farn
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Use "use regular expressions" Jun 12, 2017

and escape the bracket by putting a backslash in front of it.

escape = make it literal, not make it run away

[Edited at 2017-06-12 09:50 GMT]


 
NeoAtlas
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ticking and unticking… Jun 14, 2017

Sometimes I found out that it helps just ticking and unticking the Use check box.

… Jesús Prieto …


 
Riccardo Schiaffino
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\(foo $1bar Jun 15, 2017

Samuel Murray wrote:

Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote:
I need to replace "(foo" with "(bar" in a Trados 2015 project.

Removing " " will do the job, won't it?


Let me rephrase:

I need to replace this:

(foo

with this:

(bar

in a Trados 2015 project.


\(foo in the search field

and

$1bar in the replace field

(checking the "regular expressions" box)

should work.

[Edited at 2017-06-15 18:06 GMT]


 
Nora Diaz
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A small edit Jun 16, 2017


\(foo in the search field

and

$1bar in the replace field

(checking the "regular expressions" box)

should work.



For this to work as intended, the escaped bracket, \(, should be enclosed in brackets itself, so that the backreference $1 in the Replace field may find something to refer to. Otherwise, $1 will be inserted literally in the Replace field.

So in the Find field:

(\()foo

and in the Replace field:

$1bar


 
Riccardo Schiaffino
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You are right, of course Jun 17, 2017

Nora Diaz wrote:


\(foo in the search field

and

$1bar in the replace field

(checking the "regular expressions" box)

should work.



For this to work as intended, the escaped bracket, \(, should be enclosed in brackets itself, so that the backreference $1 in the Replace field may find something to refer to. Otherwise, $1 will be inserted literally in the Replace field.

So in the Find field:

(\()foo

and in the Replace field:

$1bar


You are right of course...


 


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