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Sourabh
Sourabh

Reputation: 4765

regex for shortforms

I need a regex (JavaScript) which will extract shortforms from a string

for example from below string

Hibbs' essays in progress include "Anselm's Sacramental Imagination," "W.E.B. DuBois and Socratic Questioning," and "Everything That Rises Must Converge: Aquinas's Theological Re-formation of the Cardinal Virtues."

it will match "W.E.B." so the condition is it should have DOTs to seperate the letters

or from

Marcih J. Robert II. Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Ph.D. (1977) Texas Tech University, B.S./M.S. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1972/1973).

Ph.D.    
B.S.     
M.S.

will match

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (1)

Bart Kiers
Bart Kiers

Reputation: 170288

This regex matches them but leaves line endings alone:

(\w+\.){2,}

(but also sub-strings like MSc., BSc. etc. will not be matched!)

Upvotes: 3

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