I SOLVED THE REGEX SYNTAX!!!!

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Kevin Le
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@Lachlan McPherson I figured it out!!!! Here's the situation…

I needed to be able to take a numbered list and break each sentence generated in the numbered list. However, whenever there were non-letter or numeric characters like "''.?/" it would cause my syntax to only return a partial sentence, leaving the rest of my work to get messed up… Here's an example of a numbered list that would work ok with the previous regex command i had found somewhere:

Regex Syntax:

/((\d+. ))([\s\S](\w+(\s|?|: |\r|\n|$))*)/

with a list like this:

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and where it would break would be if there was any character other than a letter or number.

and then somewhere in the regExr.com cheatsheet, there was the "." - any character other than a line break… so i stripped away all the other capturing groups after the ((\d+.)) which means any number with a period and space afterwards… and voila!!!!

/(?!\d+. ) (.)+/

This, right here will match only the sentence including all characters and omit the number and period that precedes that sentence!

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  • Lachlan
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    Hey Kevin,

    Well done - as mentioned Regex has always been something I've offloaded as it makes my head hurt haha.

    Glad you were able to crack it, and more importantly thank you for sharing how you achieved it!

    And as a shameless plug for you, if anyone needs a dope studio setup that looks epic on zoom calls, Kevin is your guy! Hit him up.

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