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How do I split a sentence into words and punctuation?
I want to replace any word that follows a certain condition in a text, with another word, which varies, depending on the first word. The possibilities of the other word is stored in an array, and the ...
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Autocapitalize each sentence beginning after a period
I'm trying to make it so that when a user is entering text in an input field, their sentences will autocapitalize. Some people are already bad enough with proper grammar and punctualization, so this ...
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Regular expression to allow punctuation marks and spaces between words
I want a regular expression that prevents white spaces and only allows letters and numbers with punctuation marks(Spanish). The regex below works great, but it doesn't allow punctuation marks.
^[a-zA-...
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Javascript Punctuation in an array is returning 'undefined'
I am trying to write a small cipher program and need to assemble words along with punctuation. The code works perfectly if I use letters/numbers/special characters ! through ) but isn't working with a ...
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How to use quotation marks inside a JavaScript array [duplicate]
I have a short story which I've split up so each line of the story is a new element in a JavaScript array.
However, some lines of the story use quotation marks as punctuation so they can't be used as ...
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JavaScript regular expression to match a word with any kind of punctuation at the end
I am trying to translate sentences into Pig-Latin using regular expressions. I need to select the words with any kind of punctuation at the end so that I can handle those cases differently.
For ...
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HTML: Prevent line breaks before some punctuation characters preceeded by a whitespace
In French typography conventions, few punctuation characters like ;,: or ? must be preceeded by a white space. This is causing unwanted line breaks when the punction is at the border of its HTML ...
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How to wrap letters inside span including punctuation and special characters?
I'm using a jquery text animation based on this demo.
I first have to wrap all my letters inside span. it works fine using this code, but my punctuation (".", ",", "-")... and special characters (@) ...
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how to not include punctuation after url
So I have this code,
const urlPattern1 = new RegExp(
"(https?:\\/\\/(?:www\\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\\.[^\\s]{2,}[^.,!?:;\\s]+$/?|www\\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\\.[^\...
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Why doesn't this work in JavaScript: line === '}'
I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I've look quite a bit for the answer and I can't find it.
All I want to do is to see if an element in an array matches } (i.e., a right brace). But this ...
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HTML/JS end of line punctuation wrongly aligns to the left
I encountered a strange display of punctuation within DIV elements. In my HTML the text is something like:
This is just some
random text...!!
But in the browser window, it systematically becomes:
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How to replace one punctuation with and or & randomly using javascript
am trying to remove the punctuations which are followed by punctuations and I have done it but I need to replace the last but second punctuation mark in sentence with and or & randomly.
Here is ...
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Javascript regexp with unicode and punctuation
I have the follow test case for splitting unicoded words but don't know how to do in it javascript.
describe("garden: utils", () => {
it("should split correctly", () => {
assert.deepEqual(...
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Other ways to remove or ignore punctuation in JS besides regex?
I'm working through some beginner Coderbyte problems and I've come across an interesting dilemma. Here's the problem:
"Using the JavaScript language, have the function LongestWord(sen) take the sen ...
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check if a string only has punctuation in it in javascript
In an if statement, I want to check if the string has punctuation in it. If it has punctuation, I want an alert message to pop up.
if((/*regex presumably*/.test(rspace))==true||(/*regex presumably*/....
