If you still occasionally work with the CAT tool Idiom WorldServer Desktop Workbench, you will know that it has its difficulties. For example, the client may point out to you that the number of spaces in the individual segments of the target text has to correspond to the number of spaces in the segments of the source text.
We recently received a useful tip from a colleague on how to check if the number of trailing or leading spaces in the source and target text is the same in the CAT tool Idiom WorldServer Desktop Workbench v9.0.1.60. We would like to share this tip with you.
To do this, you select the entry “SQL Query” instead of “All” in the top right corner of the screen next to the “Quick Search” line in the filter drop-down list. Thereupon, a dialogue box will open. Here, you enter the following expressions under “Enter the expression for a SQL-WHERE clause”, and then you click on “OK”:
Checking if the target text also contains a trailing space, as the source text does:
[Source] like "* " and [Target] not like "* "
(Caution, there is always 1 space after the * in the straight quotation marks)
Making sure that the target text does not contain a trailing space, unlike the source text:
[Target] like "* " and [Source] not like "* "
(Caution, there is always 1 space after the * in the straight quotation marks)
Checking if the target text also contains a leading space, as the source text does:
[Source] like " *" and [Target] not like " *"
(Caution, there is always 1 space before the * in the straight quotation marks)
Making sure that the target text does not contain a leading space, unlike the source text:
[Target] like " *" and [Source] not like " *"
(Caution, there is always 1 space before the * in the straight quotation marks)
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