JS split text into sentences

Question

I want to receive a lot of text (e.g. a book chapter), and create an array of the sentences.

My current code is:

text.match( /[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+["']?/g );

This only works when the text ends with one of [. ! ?]. If the final sentence has no punctuation at the end, it's lost.

How do I split my text into sentences, allowing for the final sentence to not have punctuation?

Answer 1

Use $ to match the end of the string:

/[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+["']?|.+$/g

Or maybe you want to allow whitespace characters at the end:

/[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+["']?|\s*$/g