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Edit Action: Find and Replace Text dialog

Use the Edit Action: Find and Replace Text dialog to set up a find-and-replace action to be performed on a translation memory (TM).

To display this dialog, choose Find and Replace Text when you are adding a new edit action to the Batch Edit wizard.

OptionDescription

Find what

Enter the text that is to be found and replaced.

You cannot use wildcards in the text. If you put one of the wildcard characters (* or ?) in the search text, Trados Studio will look for text that contains an asterisk or question mark.

Replace with

Enter the replacement text. Wherever the value in the Find what box is found, it will be replaced with the value you enter here.

Search in

Source - Select this option to find and replace text in source segments only.

Target - Select this option to find and replace text in target segments only.

Options

Match case - When this option is selected, the search will only consider text to be matched where both the content and the character casing (upper or lower case) match.

Regular Expressions - When this option is selected, you can use regular expressions in your search criteria. Regular expressions are used to search text for all occurrences of a particular sequence or pattern of characters. They differ from standard search tools because they use special metacharacters. Metacharacters enable you to create a single regular expression that will find all occurrences of a basic pattern and also specific variations of the pattern.

Regular expressions should only be used by users who are experienced in their creation.

Select OK to close this dialog, and then select Finish on the Batch Edit Script page to start the find-and-replace process and display the Applying Batch Edit Script page.