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Q: What if the Title or Description words are separated by dots, pipes or other non-comma separated characters?
Q: What if the Title or Description words are separated by dots, pipes or other non-comma separated characters?
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Written by Will Bewley
Updated over 6 years ago

A: Some menus can have different dividing characters than the usual , comma (examples: |, /, ∙). When you see a menu like this it should be replaced with this normal approach:

  1. If it is one dot we will replace it with “&”. 

  2. If multiple dots we replace the first occurrences with a comma and then the final dot with “&”. 

Ex: “Soups ‧ Salads” -> “Soups & Salads”.
“Soup ‧ Salad ‧ Pizzas” -> “Soups, Salads & Pizzas”

Example:

Pro Tip
To become more efficient, once you notice a menu that has this format, then you can use the Replacers feature to auto-replace these on extract. It will not auto-replace parts that have already been transcribed and so should be set up early on.

In a Fragment, from the right hand menu go to Replacers - here you can add the Input (eg: | ) and then the Output (eg: , ).

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