The SDL Trados Studio QA Checker allows you to specify regular expressions (Regex) to use in order to find particular string patterns in the document. Here are some Regex uses I found during the course:

1 – (\d{0,2})\/(\d{0,3})\/(\d{2,4})

EN to PT date checker: The “Find and Replace” feature allows us to change dates from the  English mm/dd/yy format to the Portuguese dd/mm/yy format.

2 – \d+\,\d+

EN to PT number checker: numbers in the thousands are formatted according to the Portuguese rules (1,000 to 1.000).

3 – .+\.\d+

Another EN to PT number checker: decimal numbers in the original English text which have not been replaced by commas in the Portuguese target text (3.0 to 3,0).

4 – \”\.

Period after quotes: In Portuguese, if a sentence starts and begins with quotes, the period must stay within the quotation mark.

5 – \(\d{3,}\) \d{3,}\-\d{4}

Telephone number checker – In Portuguese, the standard for phone numbers is (xx) xxxxx-xxxx, while in the US, the standard for phone numbers is (xxx) xxx-xxxx.