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evanwalsh on 06/25/08

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Count sentences in a string

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This will count sentences that end in . or ? or ! and have a space after them.

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function countSentences($str){
	return preg_match_all('/[^\s](\.|\!|\?)(?!\w)/',$str,$match);
}
 
countSentences("This is a test.  Hey!"); // returns 2
countSentences("What do you want?"); // returns 1
// etc.

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Posted By: koncept on June 26, 2008: echo countSentences("This is a test... Hey!"); // returns 3 (oops!)
Posted By: evanwalsh on June 27, 2008: Oh my! I'll work on that

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