JavaScript · Internationalisation

Intl.Segmenter

Splits text into graphemes, words or sentences using locale rules.

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Syntax

new Intl.Segmenter(locale, { granularity: "word" })

Example

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const segmenter = new Intl.Segmenter("en", { granularity: "word" });
console.log([...segmenter.segment("Hello world")].map(s => s.segment).filter(s => s.trim()));

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