Issue creating Checklist item with expressions

General Discussion
1

Hello,

I am having some trouble developing a RegEx to create checklist item to check for a specific issue.

In the project I’m handling there are some variables that may appear once in a string or a couple of times. Therefore, I would need Xbench to check if the amount of times the variable appears in the source matches in the target as well.

Example:

<a:m> suffered at the hands of <b:m>. <a:m> then departed to hunt down <b:m>.

In this example, I would need Xbench to check whether <b:m> and <a:m> variables appear twice each in the Target text.

According to this post I understand the best way to set up this check with the checklist manager would be to use the @ expressions function and have a checklist item per variable. However, I have tried without success both with this function and with normal RegEx, but to no avail.

Some examples I tried to make it work:

Source: “[\<b:m\>]{2,}”
Target: -"[\<b:m\>]{2,}"
Mode Search: Regular Expressions
PowerSearch: ON

Source: “(\<b:m\>)=1([\<b:m\>]{2,})=2”
Target: -"@1" or -"@2"
Mode Search: Regular Expressions
PowerSearch: ON

Would someone be able to help me out?

Many thanks in advance!

2

Hi,

Could you please provide some source and target samples?

Oscar.

3

Hi Oscar,

Of course! You can find them below:

Source: A Walker!
Target: ¡$gUn:Una; Caminante!

Source: Guards! The outsider is here!
Target: ¡Guardias! ¡$gEl forastero:La forastera; está aquí!

Source: I’m so happy you made it back safely!
Target: ¡Me alegro de que hayas vuelto $gsano y salvo:sana y salva;!

As you can see, the variable can break in several different ways:

  • With a space between the $ and the g
  • With a space between the $g and the first word
  • With a space between the words and the colon ( : )
  • With a space between the last word and the semicolon ( ; )
  • By not having the ending semicolon ( ; )

Furthermore, as you can see, the variable for gender accepts more than one word inside, as seen in the 2nd and 3rd example.

In the end I just need to check if the tag is broken in the Target text, though.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Jesús

4

Hi Jesús,

The following search should detect all possible cases:

Target: \$[:space:]*g (\$[:space:]+g OR \$g[:space:]+ OR \$g[^\:]+[:space:]+\: OR \$g[^\:]+\:[:space:]+ OR \$g[^\:]+\:[^;]+[:space:]+; OR \$g[^\:]+\:[^;]+$)

Search mode: Regular Expressions
PowerSearch: On

Regards,
Oscar.

5

Hi Oscar!

Thank you so much for your reply, and my apologies for my delayed response.

I confirm that it looks to be working just fine, but I found another possible way for the variable to break. You can find the example below:

Source: If you return when you are wiser, I will regale you with tales of great heroics.
Target: Si vuelves cuando estés más preparado:preparada;, te deleitaré con historias de grandes proezas.

As you can see, in this case we are missing $g altogether. As with the examples provided in my previous message, in this case ($g missing altogether), we could also have more than 1 word before and after the colon.

What would be the updated search that takes this case into account, as well as the others?

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers,

6

The easiest way to detect these cases would be the following search:

Target: "[:letter:]+\:[:letter:]+[:space:]?[:letter:]+;" -"\$g"
Search mode: Regex.
PowerSearch: On.

This search works if there should be only one $g instance.