Regex match everything up to first period

Question

Trying to get a lazy regex match of everything up until the first period of a sentence.

e.g. Just want to get \"jack and jill.\" from this sentence:
\"jack and j

Answer 1

/^([^.]+)/

Let's break it down,

• ^ is the newline anchor

• [^.] this matches any character that's not a period

• \+ to take until a period

And the expression is encapsulated with () to capture it.