JS: how to split sentence in words with special characters and punctuations

Asked Dec 03 '17 at 18:34

Active Dec 03 '17 at 19:22

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For Example:

The words = "Hallo, über Wörterbuch?!"; should be splitted in to an array list as:

["Hallo", ",", "über", "Wörterbuch", "?!"]

But with words.split(/\s|\b/g), I will only get

["Hallo", ",", "ü", "ber", "W", "ö", "rterbuch", "?!"]

So it seems that the "ö" has been considered as the boundary. Is there any solution for solving this kind of problem? Thank you in advance!

Sorry, please don't close this question, none of the existing questions work with my case, unless you can give an answer.

edited Dec 03 '17 at 19:22

asked Dec 03 '17 at 18:34

rekinyz

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4043307/why-this-regex-is-not-working-for-german-words – mplungjan Dec 03 '17 at 18:37
Yes, there is a word boundary between `W` and `ö` because `\b` is not Unicode-aware. – Wiktor Stribiżew Dec 03 '17 at 18:38
sorry, please don't close this question, none of the existing questions work with my case, unless you can give an answer. – rekinyz Dec 03 '17 at 19:09

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