Splitting Text into Sentences : gsub « String « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. String
  3. gsub

Splitting Text into Sentences


class String
  def sentences
    gsub(/\n|\r/, ' ').split(/\.\s*/)
  end
end

%q{Hello. This is a test of
basic sentence splitting. It
even works over multiple lines.}.sentences








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