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Samuel Murray
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May 25, 2021

Hello everyone

Does anyone know of an XLIFF editor, free and preferably simple, that will allow me to use find/replace on both source and target text? Not an online tool, please.

Thanks
Samuel
 
Hans Lenting
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CafeTran Espresso May 25, 2021

Samuel Murray wrote:

Hello everyone

Does anyone know of an XLIFF editor, free and preferably simple, that will allow me to use find/replace on both source and target text? Not an online tool, please.

Thanks
Samuel


For the task that you want to perform, you can use CafeTran Espresso without a license. It offers case-adaptive F/R.
 
Matthias Brombach
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Notepad++ May 25, 2021

... but I think you already know that tool.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
 
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@Matthias May 25, 2021

Matthias Brombach wrote:
Notepad++ ... but I think you already know that tool.


Yes, but Notepad++ does not prevent me from editing outside of the source or target fields (does it?). So, if I want to find ":" with "::", then Notepad++ will perform that operation also outside the source and target fields, thus breaking the XLIFF file.
 
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@Hans May 25, 2021

Hans Lenting wrote:
For the task that you want to perform, you can use CafeTran Espresso without a license. It offers case-adaptive F/R.


It appears to work, thanks. The only thing it can't find/replace is a dollar sign. It can find a dollar sign, but none of my attempts to include a dollar sign in the find/replace operation worked.

Also, I've just learnt that (a) CafeTran works on the actual files in your folder, so you need to create a backup of your files first, and (b) CafeTran edits those files immediately, even if you don't select "Save", and (c) there is no Undo, so make sure you make a full backup of all your files before you do any find/replace operation.

Added: the only way I was able to find/replace a dollar sign was to enable regex and use \$.

[Edited at 2021-05-25 09:01 GMT]
 
Hans Lenting
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True May 25, 2021

Samuel Murray wrote:

Also, I've just learnt that (a) CafeTran works on the actual files in your folder, so you need to create a backup of your files first, and (b) CafeTran edits those files immediately, even if you don't select "Save", and (c) there is no Undo, so make sure you make a full backup of all your files before you do any find/replace operation.


So true. I use Dropbox to have a versioning feature (all my CafeTran Espresso related files are in my Dropbox).

Added: the only way I was able to find/replace a dollar sign was to enable regex and use \$.


I was about to say that .

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