Method: String#words_without_punctuation

Defined in:
lib/core/facets/string/words.rb

#words_without_punctuation ⇒ Object

Returns an array of words in the commonly-understood sense (not including punctuation). This takes into account international punctuation characters as well as English ones.

'Slowly, grudgingly he said: "This has to stop."'.words
 => ["Slowly", "grudgingly", "he", "said", "This", "has", "to", "stop"]



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# File 'lib/core/facets/string/words.rb', line 16

def words_without_punctuation
  s = self.dup
  s.gsub!(/[.?¿¡…!,:：;—"。？！、‘“”„«»〈〉《》，\/\[\]]/, ' ')
  s.gsub!('- ', ' ')
  s.squeeze!(" ")
  s.strip.split(" ")
end