How can I count the number of sentences in a given text in Swift?

Question

I wanted to create a playground that would count the number of sentences of a given text.

let input = "That would be the text . it hast 3. periods. "

func sentencecount() {
    let periods = CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines.union(.punctuationCharacters)
    let periods = input.components(separatedBy: spaces)
    let periods2  = Int (words.count)
    print ("The Average Sentence length is \(periods2)") 
}
sentencecount()

Answer 1

Just add the character in charset by which you are going to differentiate your sentences:

I am assuming ? . , for now:

    let input = "That would be the text. it hast 3? periods."
    let charset = CharacterSet(charactersIn: ".?,")
    let arr = input.components(separatedBy: charset)
    let count = arr.count - 1

Here arr would be:

["That would be the text", " it hast 3", " periods", ""]

decrease count by 1, to get actual sentences.

Note: If you don't want to consider " , " then remove it from charset.