First Sentence Regex

Question

I\'m after a regex ( php / perl compatible ) to get the first sentence out of some text. I realize this could get huge if covering every case, but just after something that

Answer 1

I know you just want anything that works for now, but this mailing list post came up with /^[^\.]*\.\s/, and the subsequent post came up with ([\s\S]+?)\.( |\r|\n).

Though these patterns seem only match for periods, it's up to you if you want to modify it to also match for other types of punctuation such as exclamation marks and questions marks.