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Reputation: 154

how to ignore the "dots" in quotation marks

i want to ignore the . in quotation marks. what the regex should i use?

example sentences :

String sentence = "i love you. \"i'm sorry. but love someone else,\" he said to me. ";

there are three . but i want to ignore the . in quotation marks in order to the sum of sentence is two.

my code and some regex that i have :

public static String[] ignoreWord(String word){
String [] arrWords = word.replaceAll(", *| , *|- *| - *|\\( *| \\( *|\\) *|\\{ *| \\} *| \\} *| \\{*|\\} *", " ").split("\\. ");
return arrWords;
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 124

Answers (1)

vks
vks

Reputation: 67988

\.(?=(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)

Try this.See demo.

http://regex101.com/r/zX3tG3/1

Upvotes: 3

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