Regex: match fullstop and one word in python

Question

I am new to regex. I wish to write a regex which matches a '.' followed by a whitespace followed by a word(which does not contain whitespace.

For example, in the string "The sound of cracking. Splintering. A shape appears, in ice.", the regex should extract ". Splintering" and ". A".

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score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 07 '14 at 10:34

9

import re
input = 'The sound of cracking. Splintering. A shape appears, in ice.'
print re.findall("(\.\s+[a-zA-Z]+)", input)

Output: ['. Splintering', '. A']

edited Mar 07 '14 at 10:34

Múna

answered Mar 07 '14 at 10:22

Sabuj Hassan

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

2

Try:

(\.\s\w+)

Matches:

. Splintering

. A

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

answered Mar 07 '14 at 10:42

e h

2 Answers2