Hi Monks

I need a regex to match sentences ending with a period, but it has to miss abbreviations that might occur in the middle of the sentence.

For instance if I have a sentence 'I like Mr. Smith's dog.', the regex should not only match the 'I like Mr.' part.

  if ($in =~ /(\w+)(\!|\?|\.)(\s)((([A-Z])(\w|\s|\d|\(|\)|\+|\=|\-|\@|
+\#|\%|\&|\*|\<|\>|\,|\\|\/|\"|\`|'n)+(\s)(\w+\.))(\w|\s|\d|\(|\)|\+|\
+=|\-|\@|\#|\%|\&|\*|\<|\>|\,|\\|\/|\"|\`|'n)+(\s)(\w+\.))(\s)([A-Z])/
+)   
    {
         if (!exists ($abbreviations{$9}))
        {
           $hash{$5}++;
        }
        elsif (!exists ($abbreviations{$12}))
        {
            $hash{$4}++;
        }
    }

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I tried this, but it still doesn't work.

%abbreviations is a list of known abbreviations.

%hash is where correctly matched sentences are stored

Any help would be appreciated

In reply to Regex matching end of sentence by Dr Manhattan

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