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Me and RegEx

  What is RegEx? Regex or Regular Expressions is not a programming language but more pattern identification. Its main purpose is quality check in translated or other texts and documents. According to Riccardo Schiaffino, RegEx "is a search-and-replace function on steroids. Regular expressions can assist our translation work by allowing us to search, replace, and filter text in ways that would otherwise be impossible in our software tools." ( https://www.ata-chronicle.online/highlights/regular-expressions-an-introduction-for-translators/ If you are a linguist or have some affinity for languages, you will pick up regex quickly, after some trials and errors.:) For us, translators, regex is important because CAT tools use regular expressions for creating segmentation and auto-translation rules. See below my first attempts to create some basic rules that can be used for Hungarian translations. RegEx for English to Hungarian Translations Example 1: Hungarian (or other names) with m