Find & Replace

The results of Find and Replace are stored in the Results window. This differs from QuickFind where results are displayed in the Workspace window.

Find What: Specify the text you wish to locate. This is referred to as your specified text. The text entered is the exact syntax to locate using all the options defined below.

Replace with: Select this option to replace found text with an alternative text string.

While performing a replace text, the Interactive replace dialog will display if at least one match is found.

Note:  If you used regular expression groups in the Find What entry box, you can use the text in the replace by referring to the match of the first group as \1, the second as \2, etc.   \0 to refer to the text that matched the complete pattern.

Replace operations cannot be performed on Tag names, attributes and values, nor on segment IDs.

Original: Select to search for the specified text in the Original segments.

This option may be combined with Translated text and Other Content to search all desired sections of the project.

If the option to search in Original is selected, at least Text or Raw Text below must be selected. Not selecting either option will result in a message: "Select what to search".

Translated: Select to search for the specified text in the Translated segments.

This option may be combined with Original text and Other Content to search all sections of the project.

If the option to search in Translated is selected, at least Text or Raw Text below must be selected. Not selecting either option will result in a message: "Select what to search".

Text: Use this option to search for the specified text in the project. This will not find any text on tags (i.e. tag names). It will however find text in keywords.

Use with Other content options to search the specified text in Memos, IDs or/and Context Links.

See examples below to compare with Raw Text search.

Raw Text: Use Raw text to search the specified text within the segment in its raw format. Meaning that tags read and searched in their native syntax.

Example:

Instead of Text searching the string with tags as this:

Raw text searches the string formatted like so:

To clear the results of <span class="hcp5">Quickfind</span> click on the <img src="../image40.gif" style="width:16px; height:16px;" width=16 height=16 border="0" class="hcp6"> button.

Note that Raw text search will only look into the "parsed" segment. Any tags or formatting that were not parsed as localisable are excluded.

Using Raw Text allows for example to search for any instance of a closing tag bracket followed by a space, which would not be possible in Text search.

Selecting Raw Text, the subsequent 3 options are automatically ticked and greyed out because they become irrelevant.

Inline Tag name: Use in conjunction with Text  to search for the specified text in tag names also.

Searching for text which is both in plain text and in a tag name will not be found. For example, searching for "spanQuickfind" in the below segment will not find the segment.

Searching for "span" will find the segment, as well as searching for "Quickfind".

Inline Attribute name: Use in conjunction with Text  to search for the specified text in any attribute name found in tags.

Example

This tag   is  <span class="hcp5">

Searching for inline attribute name "class" will find any string with this inline tag included.

Inline Attribute value: Use in conjunction with Text  to search for the specified text in any attribute value found in tags.

Example

This tag   is  <span class="hcp5">

Searching for inline attribute value "hcp5" will find any string with this inline tag included.

Search in memo: Select  to search text in memos.

Search in ID: Select to search text in segment IDs.

Search in Context Link: Select to search text in Context Links.

Match whole word only: Use to search the specified text only if it is found as a word on its own.

Example

Searching for  "cat"

will be find  "The cat is outside"

will not find  "Use catalyst to translate your project"

Match Case: Select this option if you want your searches case sensitive.

Use regular expression: Using this option with read the specified text to find as a Regular Expression for which some characters have a special meaning.
With this option selected, Match Case is not an option as regular expressions are always case sensitive...

Example:

Searching for "[a-z]" will find one character of the alphabet in lower case.

Ignore hotkey ampersands: Select this option if you want to ignore hotkeys contained within original and translated fields.