RegEx to Match Sentence -- Works in RegEx101.com but not KM

JMichaelTX · February 17, 2019, 5:39am

RegEx101.com Match Sentence
([A-Z].+?(?=(?:\. {1,2}[A-Z])|[\.?!]$)[\.?!])

KM match stops at first period:
Here is a sentence with abbrev.

~~~ VER: 1.0 2019-02-16 ~~~

RegEx to Match Sentence.kmmacros (5.4 KB)
Note: This Macro was uploaded in a DISABLED state. You must enable before it can be triggered.

mrpasini · February 17, 2019, 5:27pm

Your regex depends on case but you've set the action to ignore case.

JMichaelTX · February 17, 2019, 10:50pm

Bingo!
I can't believe I made such a rookie mistake.
The RegEx and macro now work perfectly.

I have made some minor updates to the RegEx:
RegEx101.com Extract Sentence from Paragraph
([A-Z].+?(?=(?:[\.?!]\h+[A-Z])|[\.?!]$)[\.?!])

Thanks again @mrpasini.

Here's my finished Macro for Pages based on this:
MACRO: Pages -- Select Sentence [Example]

mrpasini · February 19, 2019, 5:31pm

Happy I was able to help!