How would you build a regex that splits a paragraph into sentences, but does not split on any punctuation that is inside <>?

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Currently I have this regex to split a paragraph into sentences: /[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+/g. The issue though is that my paragraphs aren't just paragraphs of text. I have links in them like this:

This is text and here is a <value="link" href="http://link.com?param=test"> which directs to another page. So I don't want to split at the anything inside the link above.

I want to split that into an array like:

['This is text and here is a <value="link" href="http://link.com?param=test"> which directs to another page.', 'So I don't want to split at the anything inside the link above.']

What regex would do this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 15:19

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Try this:

(.+?[\.!\?](?!.+?>)\s*)

answered Jun 19 '13 at 15:19

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This seems to work pretty well, but forgets about the last text if it doesn't terminate in the expected punctuation when splitting. – Namey Jan 08 '15 at 08:15

How would you build a regex that splits a paragraph into sentences, but does not split on any punctuation that is inside <>?

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