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Regex for removing leading and trailing carriage returns and line feeds from a sentence

Also is it possible to combine this with removing periods from within the string? The sentence may have spaces which I'd like to keep.

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    ^[\r\n]+|\.|[\r\n]+$

    and replace with nothing.

    The specific syntax will depend on the language you're using, e. g. in C#:

    resultString = Regex.Replace(subjectString, @"^[\r\n]+|\.|[\r\n]+$", "");

    in PHP:

    $result = preg_replace('/^[\r\n]+|\.|[\r\n]+$/', '', $subject);

    in JavaScript:

    result = subject.replace(/^[\r\n]+|\.|[\r\n]+$/g, "");

    etc...