I'm using this regex:
(?<=[.?!])\.
To match the period that comes after the final punctuation in a sentence. Example:
Sentence.. (The second period will be matched.)
Sentence sentence?. (The period will be matched.)
Sentence sentence!. (The period will be matched.)
It's been working fine so far ... except for ellipsis:
Sentence sentence... (The last two periods will be matched.)
How to modify this regex so it doesn't match ellipsis ...?
Live regex: https://regexr.com/6hf3n
As you already make use of a lookbehind, you might use:
(?<=[?!]|(?<!\.)\.(?!\.\.))\.
The pattern matches:
(?<= Positive lookbehind, assert what is to the left is
[?!] Match either ? or !| Or(?<!\.)\.(?!\.\.) A dot when there is no dot to the left, and not 2 dot to the right) Close lookbehind\. Match a dotSee a regex demo.