Sentence Regex Pattern

Live Regex Tester

Pattern Breakdown

Code Examples

const regex = /[A-Z][^.!?]*[.!?]/g;
const test = "This is a sentence.";
console.log(regex.test(test)); // true

// Extract matches
const matches = test.match(regex);
console.log(matches);

import re

pattern = r'[A-Z][^.!?]*[.!?]'
test = "This is a sentence."
match = re.findall(pattern, test)
print(match)  # Found!

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
)

func main() {
    re := regexp.MustCompile(`[A-Z][^.!?]*[.!?]`)
    fmt.Println(re.MatchString("This is a sentence.")) // true
}

Common Use Cases

Match Examples

About the Sentence Regex

Matches sentences starting with a capital letter and ending with period, exclamation, or question mark.

Regular expressions (regex) are powerful pattern matching tools used across virtually all programming languages. The sentence pattern is classified as beginner difficulty in the text & strings category. It works in all major programming languages.

When using this regex, always consider edge cases and test thoroughly with real-world data. Use the interactive tester above to validate the pattern against your specific inputs before deploying to production.

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