Simple regular expression

In my string '$string', I want to replace every instance of ". [A-Z]",

i.e., a full stop, followed by a space, followed by a capital later

with ".<br><br>[A-Z]"

but I'm such a numpty when it comes to regular expressions.

Help!

Edit: Oops, I wonder if some good-natured soul would be so kind as to move my thread to the regex forum 'which we now have'!!!

Thanks

Done. Thanks for noticing.

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Use $1 to insert the letter back into the replacement string, since that's the only variable part of the whole thing.

Hi cafelatte,

I'd suggest one tiny change from Requinix's suggestion because you want to match a literal period, not a "dot" (any character).

I have tested this php.

Input:
Period. Again.One.Word. Hi.5.33

Code:


Output:
Period.<br /><br />Again.One.Word.<br /><br />Hi.5.33

The htmlentities is just for display, what you want is the preg_replace.

Let us know if one of those works for you.
:-)