I am trying to use a regex (javascript) to move periods in a text. The text looks like this:
This is a text with ending period on wrong line
.
This is a another line
I use this regex:
summary.replace(/[\n\r]\.[\s\n\r]/gm, '.\r')
to make it look like this:
This is a text with ending period on wrong line.
This is a another line
But instead it looks like this:
This is a text with ending period on wrong line
.his is a another line
Cant figure out what is wrong in my regex.
Anyone?
I would suggest you output the result encoded as JSON with JSON.stringify to see if there are any whitespace characters (like newlines) that are still there. I would also use quantifiers for you character classes so that it can match more that one character at once
/[\n\r]?\.[\s\n\r]*/gm
Use this regex
[\n\r]+\.(?=[\s\n\r]+)
replace it with .