Subtitle Workshop: Backwarding the text. How?

[O-mer]

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the software "Subtitle Workshop".

I want to know how can I backward the subtitles??

I will explain better with an example:

Let's say there is a line in the subtitles that goes like this:
(NOTE: Do not refer to the quotation marks)

"How are you?" <-- This is the line BEFORE the edit


NOW, I want the line to look like this:

"?How are you" <-- This is the line AFTER the edit

If someone knows how to do this action of backwarding the subtitles with or even without the software "Subtitle Workshop", I don't care, write it down too.

Thanks a million...

[jcdr]

You would have to use a text editor supporting regex (regular expressions), eg Notepad++.
Regexs are very powerful, but if you're not familiar with them, this will look like gibberish to you...
See eg http://www.regular-expressions.info/

With regex selected, replace: \n(.+)\? with: \n\?$1

Note: Subtitle Workshop is obsolete. Better work with Subtitle Edit, it has (limited) support of regex, and most important, it supports UTF-8.

[O-mer]

Thank you very much for your response!!

I will look on to this :)

If I will have more questions regarding this post and topic of regex etc. I will post them here...

[O-mer]

Oh, yeah, I have a question.

How does the regex suppose to help me solve the reversed marks like ? ! And so on...

Maybe I didn't study it that much to understand.
To tell you the truth, I did understand, but not everything.

What I want is if you can explain to me how I can solve my issue with this regex method.

Thank you

[jcdr]

Only way is for you to do your homework, my friend. Peruse the site http://www.regular-expressions.info/, try and play on Notepad++ or Subtitle Edit etc.

In this particular case:
\n(.+)\? search all character chains starting with a Line Feed \n, ending with a question mark \?, with any char chain in between .+, capturing brackets ()
\n\?$1 replace with chain starting with a Line Feed \n, followed by a question mark \?, followed by the chain in the first capturing brackets $1
So "LF any character chain ?" will be replaced by "LF? any character chain "

[O-mer]

Thanks again for your help...

Got homework to do now :)

I think it will take me a while to study and understand because it takes time and I am in an era with not much time at home to study... But I will study in parts...

Your help and reference (Especially in your latest post) to my questions is much appreciated so big thanks for everything and again , if I will have more questions I will ask here...