Question

I have been trying to grab a first location name inside the sentences. The desired location name will exactly starts at the 2nd capital of the first sentence and then precisely end before the first dot(.)

Example:

 It is located at Supreme Court. Follow by some other text. 
                  ^           ^

Desired out put

Supreme Court

Sorry I can’t show you a piece of code that I’ve got so far. After an hour of trying, I got nothing in concrete.

If you show the code example in Ruby would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

This regex :

regexp = /^.*?[A-Z].*?([A-Z].*?)\./
match = regexp.match(subject)
if match
    match = match[1]
else
    match = ""
end

Will produce : Supreme Court

I start from the start of the string matching the first capital while ignoring everyhting else. I then match the 2nd capital and save the result into backreference 1 until the first dot.