“Match whole word” vs. using < and > + PowerSearch

General Discussion
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Hi there!

I’m having a hard time understanding a difference in operation while debugging a regular expression.

I’m trying to detect if the word “even” from the source is absent from the target. As you can guess, the word “even” has plenty of translations in my language (Spanish), so I ended up with a rather long regular expression:

Source term: "even"
Match whole word

Target term: -"(aún|aun(que)?|todavía|hasta|incluso|ni siquiera|plan(o|a)s?|parej(o|a)s?|igualad(o|a)s?|uniformes?|nivelad(o|a)s?|misma altura|regular(es)?|empatad(o|a)s?|par(es)?|lis(o|a)s?|alinead(o|a)s?|a mano|igual(es)?|a pesar|si bien|estables?|siquiera)"
Match whole word

This entry, however, throws a false positive with the following sentence:
ST: One or more of your products show as unavailable for purchase at checkout even though they’re displayed as being in stock on your online store.
TT: Uno o más de tus productos se muestran como no disponibles durante la confirmación de compra, aunque aparecen como en stock en la tienda en línea.

It’s a false positive because the TT contains “aunque”.

If I add < and > to enclose the target expression, the entry works correctly, but I want to understand why it doesn’t work to begin with. Perhaps I’ve been missing something and I might have to correct several entries I created in a similar way.

It also seems to be an issue with the “par(es)?” part of the expression, since it works normally if I remove it. The issue still happens even if I separate “par(es)?” into “par|pares”.

Can someone help me with this?
Thanks a lot!

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There is no false positive in this entry since aun(que)? in target means that you are searching for aun and aunque.

3

Hi and thanks for your reply!

I’m not sure if I’m understanding this correctly.

If the target contains “aunque”, should the expression aun(que)? still get it? Why would the entry behave differently when using “Match whole word” and when enclosing the expression in < and >?

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aun(que)? with the Match Whole Word option is the same as <aun> OR <aunque>. In aun(que)?, que in parenthesis followed by ? means that que can appear or not as part of a word starting with aun.