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Characters for Removal: comma handling
Thread poster: trhanslator (X)
trhanslator (X)
trhanslator (X)
Feb 24, 2013

Hi,

I like your CafeTran CAT tool very much. Especially all the nifty editing features. However, I have one question that has been bothering me for some time now.

Is it possible to enter a syntax into the Edit | Options | General | Characters for removal field that allows me to remove commas before (space +) letters, saving commas before (space +) numbers?

So:

1. Remove comma before:

, bis
, das
, ob
, um
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Hi,

I like your CafeTran CAT tool very much. Especially all the nifty editing features. However, I have one question that has been bothering me for some time now.

Is it possible to enter a syntax into the Edit | Options | General | Characters for removal field that allows me to remove commas before (space +) letters, saving commas before (space +) numbers?

So:

1. Remove comma before:

, bis
, das
, ob
, um

2. Save comma before:

Pos. (1, 2)
1,5 mm

Thanks for looking into this,

Hans ▲ Collapse
 
trhanslator (X)
trhanslator (X)
TOPIC STARTER
Still no solution? Mar 6, 2013

trhanslator wrote:

Hi,

I like your CafeTran CAT tool very much. Especially all the nifty editing features. However, I have one question that has been bothering me for some time now.

Is it possible to enter a syntax into the Edit | Options | General | Characters for removal field that allows me to remove commas before (space +) letters, saving commas before (space +) numbers?

So:

1. Remove comma before:

, bis
, das
, ob
, um

2. Save comma before:

Pos. (1, 2)
1,5 mm

Thanks for looking into this,

Hans


Is it possible to let this command remove commas only when they are followed by a space and a uppercase/lowercase letter?
 
Igor Kmitowski
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Local time: 21:13
Member (2016)
English to Polish
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Regular expression Mar 6, 2013

Hello,

Type the following regular expression in the Characters for removal field:

,(?= \D)

Igor

trhanslator wrote:

Hi,

I like your CafeTran CAT tool very much. Especially all the nifty editing features. However, I have one question that has been bothering me for some time now.

Is it possible to enter a syntax into the Edit | Options | General | Characters for removal field that allows me to remove commas before (space +) letters, saving commas before (space +) numbers?

So:

1. Remove comma before:

, bis
, das
, ob
, um

2. Save comma before:

Pos. (1, 2)
1,5 mm

Thanks for looking into this,

Hans


 


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