Hi there, 

I'm progressing but I still meet problems. 

For the moment, I have this one:

'title' =>'ICO',
'p' => [
"Das Akronym für INITIAL COIN OFFER (Initial Money Offer) ist eine Fundraising-Methode im Bereich der Kryptomik. Ähnlich wie bei einem Börsengang mit einem wesentlichen Unterschied, jedoch ohne Regulierung durch eine zentrale Behörde.",
'Ce procédé permet principalement le financement de projets liés à la technologie blockchain via une collecte de fonds en cryptomonnaie. La volatilité accrue de ces actifs est liée à l’état embryonnaire des projets, dont le succès potentiel est évalué par la légitimité et la notoriété des membres de l’équipe technique combiné à la qualité du White Paper.'

The first part is translated, and not the second. I don't understand because there is in the rule 

beginning    '

ending     .'

.

Why wasn't it extracted? 

What's wrong with my definition?

Thanks for your help,

Do you understand correctly the role of square brackets in regular expressions?
It doesn't mean a sequence of characters! It means a single character from those listed inside the brackets...

So to me it looks like your closing rules are just plain incorrect.

Evzen Polenka said:

Do you understand correctly the role of square brackets in regular expressions?

Absolutely not! :-) I''m trying to learn and understand  from the help I get.

However, it seems to work quite well, which might be strange. 

How should I define a sequence of characters, and still more important question, where can I learn the secrets of opening and closing patterns? 

Evzen could you tell me what is the character for "OR", please? 

Thanks

As a cheat-sheet, I’m uploading a mini-guide in PDF.

Nora Díaz has posted some articles about regex, with good examples for Trados Studio:

http://noradiaz.blogspot.com/

Paul’s blog https://multifarious.filkin.com/ has some articles as well about regex.

☛  I’d recommend you to test first your regular expressions in sites like http://regexstorm.net/tester. It’s faster and let you learn in real-time as you change the regex and see the matches below. Try it!

PDF

Sophie Martin

You really should learn some basic regex.  There are hundreds of sites on the internet with tutorials and help.  Try starting with these as they are really relevant to translators:

http://noradiaz.blogspot.com/

Or this for more detail:

https://www.regular-expressions.info/

On your specific question.  You basically have two ways. You can use a pipe symbol, so a|b means match b if a fails.  Or you could use ab inside square brackets like this [ab] which means match a single character from within the list ab.

Essentially providing an OR type of operation.

If you mean inside square brackets, there is no OR.

[abc] means a or b or c

Jesús Prieto said:

If you mean inside square brackets, there is no OR.

[abc] means a or b or c

???
Isn't the word between the 'a', 'b' and 'c' in your sentence the word "or"? ;-)

Yes they were ORs. There is not a regex character meaning OR inside square backets, just like the character “|” in other places.

Sophie Martin

Thank you for the files you just sent me.  In my opinion you really need to emply a localization engineer to prepare these files for you properly.  Most of the content seems to be html chunks embedded into the php and a localization engineer would be able to prepare these files for translation using the html filetype, and what's left with a simple regex based filetype, then put them back together again afterwards.

If you try to do this all with a regex based filetype you're asking for problems. You can get there... so using these for the structure for example (and this is incomplete):

And then with some inline rules to exclude stuff you don't want... maybe this sort of thing for example:

This starts to take some shape, but it needs you to understand what you're doing and build on this.

But really... you should employ a localization engineer to manage this process for you as the results will be more reliable and they'll scale.

Sophie Martin

Thank you for the files you just sent me.  In my opinion you really need to emply a localization engineer to prepare these files for you properly.  Most of the content seems to be html chunks embedded into the php and a localization engineer would be able to prepare these files for translation using the html filetype, and what's left with a simple regex based filetype, then put them back together again afterwards.

If you try to do this all with a regex based filetype you're asking for problems. You can get there... so using these for the structure for example (and this is incomplete):

And then with some inline rules to exclude stuff you don't want... maybe this sort of thing for example:

This starts to take some shape, but it needs you to understand what you're doing and build on this.

But really... you should employ a localization engineer to manage this process for you as the results will be more reliable and they'll scale.

Thanks Paul. So, if I understand well, the LE will convert these files in html, we translate, he converts them back in php? 

If so, do you know one to recommand? 

I've spend the whole day on it! STarting from 0, i've learned a lot but i'm exhausted now. I'll carefully read the different sources you and Jesus sent me. Thank you for your precious time and advice. 

Sophie Martin said:

Thanks Paul. So, if I understand well, the LE will convert these files in html, we translate, he converts them back in php? 

If so, do you know one to recommand? 

Well I know many... but I don't know many who work freelance.  As an Agency you might want to consider employing one full time.  I guess you might get lucky in here if anyone is reading this thread... or perhaps someone like Tom Imhof might be interested to help you?  Tom is an excellent developer and I'm pretty sure does localization work for companies with filetype conundrums.

I'm not sure what Evzen Polenka does these days but this would be right up his alley too.