regex remove dot from end of each word in text

Question

I try to remove dot only from end of each word in given text. (in java) for example:

input: java html. .net node.js php.
output: java html .net node.js php


        

Answer 1

Depending on your definition of word you could replace:

(\w)\.(?!\S)

with $1. Which would remove all . at the end of a word followed by a space or end of string.

Answer 2

for(String str : input.split(" "))
{ 
     if(str.charAt(str.len - 1) == '.')
         str = str.substr(0, str.len - 2);

     //do something with str
}

I would avoid regular expressions if at all possible as they are much slower.

Answer 3

You can do:

String repl = "java html. .net node.js php.".replaceAll("\\.(?!\\w)", "");

// java html .net node.js php

Answer 4

If you're going to use a regular expression, I'd recommend using a word boundary.

 \.\B

This matches a literal dot at the end of a word boundary only.

Answer 5

An elaborated solution based on Qtax's answer:

String s = "java html. .net node.js php.";
System.out.println(s);
s = s.replaceAll("(\\w)\\.(?!\\S)", "$1");
System.out.println(s);

Output:

java html .net node.js php