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Answer in coffeescript for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7531664/javascript-jquery-remove-last-sentence-of-long-text
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| removeLastSentence = (text) -> | |
| lastSeparator = Math.max( | |
| text.lastIndexOf("."), | |
| text.lastIndexOf("!"), | |
| text.lastIndexOf("?") | |
| ) | |
| revtext = text.split('').reverse().join('') | |
| sep = revtext.search(/[A-Z]\s+(\")?[\.\!\?]/) | |
| lastTag = text.length-revtext.search(/\/\</) - 2 | |
| lastPtr = if (lastTag > lastSeparator) then (lastTag) else (text.length) | |
| if sep > -1 | |
| text1 = revtext.substring(sep+1, revtext.length).trim().split('').reverse().join('') | |
| text2 = text.substring(lastPtr, text.length).replace(/['"]/g,'').trim() | |
| sWithoutLastSentence = text1 + text2 | |
| else | |
| sWithoutLastSentence = '' | |
| return sWithoutLastSentence |
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