Split string into sentences in javascript

Question

Currently i am working on an application that splits a long column into short ones. For that i split the entire text into words, but at the moment my regex splits numbers to

Answer 1

Use lookahead to avoid replacing dot if not followed by space + word char:

sentences = str.replace(/(?=\s*\w)\./g,'.|').replace(/\?/g,'?|').replace(/\!/g,'!|').split("|");

OUTPUT:

["This is a long string with some numbers [125.000,55 and 140.000] and an end. This is another sentence."]