Spotting double .. at the end of a sentence

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Hello,
I am looking for a regex/Word wildcard to identify double full stops (…) at the end of a sentence.
So far what I have tried brings all sorts of false positives (…) or … do not work at all.

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Try this search:

Source or target term: ".." -"..."
Search mode: Simple
PowerSearch: On

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Hello @omartin, I have a similar question. I have a UI source file that can have “…” as “Find…” but there are the same string without three dots as “Find”, then due to the high fuzzy, they got mixed. Thus, I would like to spot inconsistent trailing and tried Leading/Trailing Mismatch though, some of them are not detected correctly.
Another issue is “…” three periods can be ellipses dots like “…” (treated as one letter).
I used the expression below but only detects the ones with ellipses dots.
Source: [^…]$
Target: \…$
How can I specify the checklist to detect inconsistencies of “…” (ellipse) and “…” (three dots) between the source and the text?

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I would use 2 checklist entries:

  1. Source contains ellipse but ellipse is missing in target:
    Source: …
    Target: -…
    Search mode: Simple
    PowerSearch: On

  2. Source contains 3 dots but they are missing in target:
    Source: "..."
    Target: "…" OR -"..."
    Search mode: Simple
    PowerSearch: On

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Hi @omartin , thank you!

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Hi @omartin! I would need your help again. There are still some false positives and I reorganized the conditions as below.

To spot the following conditions, how can I specify?

  1. Source has ellipses dots and Target doesn’t have ellipses dots/three dots.
  2. Source has three dots and Target doesn’t have ellipses dots/three dots.
  3. Source doesn’t have ellipses dots/three dots and Target has ellipses dots.
  4. Source doesn’t have ellipses dots/three dots and Target has three dots.

Thank you!!
Yoko

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Source: "…"
Target: -"…" -"..."

Source: "..."
Target: -"…" -"..."

Source: -"…" -"..."
Target: "…"`

Source: -"…" -"..."
Target: "..."`

Select the following parameters for all checklist entries:

  • Search mode: simple
  • PowerSearch: On
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Hi @omartin Thank you very much! It’s perfect now!! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
Have a nice afternoon!