Question

I want to pull out capitalized words that don’t start a sentence along with the previous and following word.

I’m using:

(\w*)\b([A-Z][a-z]\w*)\b(\w*)

replace with:

$1 -- $2 -- $3

Edit: It’s only returning the $2. Will try suggestions.

And regarding natural language? Don’t care for this thing. I just want to see where capitals show up in a sentence so I can figure out if they’re proper or not.

Answer 1

How about this?

([a-zA-Z]+)\s([A-Z][a-z]*)\s([a-zA-Z]+)

This doesn’t take into account anything non-alphabetic though. It also assumes that all words are separated by a single whitespace character. You will need to modify it if you want more complex support.