Find a regular expression for following string

Question

I have string and that string has four formats:

str = "A. B.C. D, WOW, 'H' BENCH"

str1 = "ABCD WOW BENCH \"k\""

str2 = "A.B.C.D,. WOW 'K' BENCH"

str3 = "ABCD, WOW 'K' BENCH"

The string will come in any one of the formats, so I want the regular expression which will give me the following results respectively:

str = "ABCD WOW H BENCH"

str1 = "ABCD WOW BENCH K"

str2 = "ABCD WOW K BENCH"

str3 = "ABCD WOW K BENCH"

the Tin Man · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17 21:10:23Z

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Use this regex and then replace the match with an empty string:

(?<=\.) (?=[A-Z]\b)|[.,'"]

Here is a demonstration.

edited Dec 17, 2014 at 21:10

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answered Dec 11, 2014 at 4:54

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Deepti Kakade Over a year ago

The above expression is not working if the string is like "A. B.C D., WOW K Bench" it is giving the ABC D WOW K Benchoutput. I want the output ABCD WOW K Bench

Avinash Raj Over a year ago

@DeeptiKakade please add some explanation to your question. What would be the expected output for the above input and why? And it's better to ask it as a new question.

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