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saveman71/splitToSentencesFrench.js

Created October 22, 2015 08:37
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This regex will split a text in sentences respecting punctuation, and thinks like "M. Lastname" will not break the sentence
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splitToSentencesFrench.js
var sentences = text.match(/(M\.|Mme\.|Mlle\.|\.\w|(?:\.\.\.|…)\s+[a-z]|[^\.!\?\n…])+[\.!\?\n…]+/g);
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