Checklist for parenthesis

General Discussion
1

Hi folks!

I have found an old topic about this, but I could not replicate the results in my work, so I have to ask it again, sorry.

I would like to create a checklist to find any amount of missing pairs of parenthesis in target. So far I am using this one:
Source: “(.)"
Target: -"(.)”
Power Search: on
Mode: Regex case sensitive

It works well when there are no parenthesis in target at all, but I must search for cases where the target has not the same amount of pairs of parenthesis as the source.

Thanks in advance,
Sílvia

2

Hi Silvia,

This search should find mismatches of segments that contain only one parenthesis.

Source: "\([^\)]+\)"
Target: -"\([^\)]+\)"
Search mode: Regex
PowerSearch: on

To detect segments with two parentheses in source you would use the following one:

Source: "\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Target: -"\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Search mode: Regex
PowerSearch: on

Best regards,
Oscar.

3

Thanks, Oscar.

One more question: your second expression will not work if source has three or more pair of parentheses but target has less than that, right?

Best regards,
Sílvia

4

You need to create a checklist entry for each number of parentheses in source:

Segments with 3 parentheses:

Source: "\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Target: -"\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Search mode: Regex
PowerSearch: on

Segments with 4 parentheses:

Source: "\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Target: -"\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)\(*\([^\)]+\)"
Search mode: Regex
PowerSearch: on

and so on

5

That’s what I thought, Oscar. Thank you very much!

Un abrazo,
Sílvia