How can I split a body of text into both sentences and/or paragraph breaks?

Question

I would like to split a body of text such as:

var str = "This is one.  Two because of space break
This is number three! 


And Four?!?!"

Using str.match( /[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+/g ) from here I get the following 3.

[ 'This is one.',
  '  Two because of space break\r\n    This is number three!',
  ' \r\n\r\n\r\n    And Four?!?!' ]

Instead I would like to have 4 different and clean (no \r\n) values because of the page break. I tried using str.replace(/\r?\n/g,'.'); before the match function and that sort of works, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner way maybe by combining regexes?

I would like to get:

['This is one.', 'Two because of space break', 'This is number three!', 'And Four?!?!']

If you stop using Internet Explorer, the issue solves itself !! — adeneo, Jun 26 '14 at 22:34
What's the criterion for separation of phrases? The dot, or the double space? — jcaron, Jun 26 '14 at 22:38
Chrome doesn't use `CRLF`, only `LF`, so a string created in the browser enviroment shouldn't return `\r\n` at all, but just `\n`. On the other hand, you can't have multiline strings, so it's probably coming from somewhere else. — adeneo, Jun 26 '14 at 22:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '14 at 22:43

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Is this what you want?

str.match(/[^\s.!?]+[^.!?\r\n]+[.!?]*/g);

answered Jun 26 '14 at 22:43

jcaron

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How can I split a body of text into both sentences and/or paragraph breaks?

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