Text::Sentence(3)

NAME
Text::Sentence - module for splitting text into sentences

SYNOPSIS
    use Text::Sentence qw( split_sentences );
    use locale;
    use POSIX qw( locale_h );

    setlocale( LC_CTYPE, 'iso_8859_1' );
    @sentences = split_sentences( $text );

DESCRIPTION
The "Text::Sentence" module contains the function split_sentences, which splits text into its constituent sentences, based on a fairly approximate regex. If you set the locale before calling it, it will deal correctly with locale dependant capitalization to identify sentence boundaries. Certain well know exceptions, such as abreviations, may cause incorrect segmentations.

FUNCTIONS

  split_sentences( $text )
The split sentences function takes a scalar containing ascii text as an argument and returns an array of sentences that the text has been split into.

    @sentences = split_sentences( $text );

SEE ALSO
    locale
    POSIX

REPOSITORY
<https://github.com/neilb/HTML-Summary>

AUTHOR
Ave Wrigley <wrigley@cre.canon.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE). All rights reserved.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.