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javascriptregexperiodsentence

Match full sentences skipping spurious dots

I need to match complete sentences ending at the full stop, but I'm stuck on trying to skip false dots.
To keep it simple, I've started with this syntax [^.]+[^ ] which works fine with normal sentences, but, as you can see, it breaks at every dots.

My regex101

So, at the first sentence, the result should be: 

Recent studies have described a pattern associated with specific object (e.g., face-related and building-related) in human occipito-temporal cortex.

and so on.

Solution

  • Just use a lookahead to set the condition as match upto a dot which must be followed by a space or end of the line anchor $.

    (.*?\.)(?=\s|$)

    DEMO