I need to match if a sentence starts with a capital and ends with [?.!] in Python.
EDIT It must have [?.!] only at end but allo
I made it working for myself, and just for clarification or if other people have the same problem this is what did the trick for me:
re.match('^[A-Z][^?!.]*[?.!]$', sentence) is not None
Explanation:
Where ^[A-Z]
looks for a Capital at start
'[^?!.]*'
means everything in between start and end is ok except things containing ?
or !
or .
[?.!]$
must end with ?
or !
or .
Use the below regex.
^[A-Z][\w\s]+[?.!]$
Regex demo: https://regex101.com/r/jpqTQ0/2
import re
s = ['This sentence is correct.','this sentence does not start with capital','This sentence is not correct']
# What I tried so for is:
for i in s:
print(re.match('^[A-Z][\w\s]+[?.!]$', i) is not None)
Output:
True
False
False
Working code demo
Your regex checks for a single digit in the range [A-Z]
. You should change to something like:
^[A-Z].*[?.!]$
Change the .*
to whatever you want to match between the capital letter and the punctuation at the end of the string.