Split, Regex or something else

[flynn]

Given this text:

 

This is a $5 million cost reduction program. The company has about 2.6 million distinct inventory items.

 

I am having trouble trying to break the string into "words".

 

The problem I'm having is that split doesn't accept multiple delimiters and even if it did, I couldn't split using the "." character because that would split the "2.6" into 2 different words.

 

I'm not too familiar with regex. It allows multiple delimiters but can it differentiate for a "." that ends a word (or sentence) and one that is embedded in a number ("2.6")?

 

Or is there another way to break string data into individual words to be processed?

 

tia,

flynn

[Bucky]

Actually, String.Split() does accept multiple delimeters; they must be of the char datatype. So, for example, if you wanted to split by spaces and by periods:

string sentence = " This is a $5 million cost reduction program. The company has about 2.6 million distinct inventory items.";
string[] words = sentence.Split(new char[] {' ','.'});

 

I agree, however, that this is not a good idea because of the 2.6 figure. Instead, I would split only by spaces and then go through each word and remove trailing periods.

[IngisKahn]

RegEx:

 

\S*[^\.\s]

 

IOW Any number of non-white-space characters followed by a single character that is neither a period nor a white-space. You can throw other punctuation in there as needed. e.g. comma, semi-colon, etc.