Split text into paragraphs where there are "spaces" at the end of the text?

Question

Using this (?sm)^.*?\.$ I retrieve every paragraph from my text.

When there are "spaces" at the end of the text the last paragraph isn't matched. What do I have to use to fix that?

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regex101 example

Answer 1

If you want to fix your regex, then you can add \s* at the end of the pattern:

(?sm)^.*?\.\s*$

However, you can use a split method with a regex like this:

^\t*$

working demo

Answer 2

I use ((?:[^\n][\n]?)+) since I have worked on my school project. It captures you all the paragraphs separated with at least one line (\n).

It works simply: Just capture everything that is not a newline.

Check the Regex101 out.