Question

I trying to write a regular expression that would match a particular word and continue matching until a period is encountered. For example:

Text:

Which Have Never Won Two Races Other Than Maiden, Claiming, Or Starter Or Which Have Never Won Three Races Or Optional Claiming Price Of $25,000. Three Year Olds, 118 Lbs.; Older, 123 Lbs. Non-winners of $24,000 since March 9 Allowed 2 Lbs.

Desired Match:

Which Have Never Won Two Races Other Than Maiden, Claiming, Or Starter Or Which Have Never Won Three Races Or Optional Claiming Price Of $25,000.

Regular Expression:

(?<Match1>Which\s[a-zA-Z]*[.])

Unfortunately my proposed expression captures all of the text and seems to extend to the last period instead of the first.`

Answer 1

It is actually pretty simple. Use [^.]* to match all characters up but not including to the next . and surround your desired word by \b boundaries. I appended the final . as \. assuming you want to include that in the matched output.

(?<Match1>\bWhich\b[^.]*\.)