* Name: count_sentences * Purpose: count the number of sentences in a text * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.count.paragraphs.php * count_sentences (Smarty online manual) * @author Monte Ohrt * @param string * @return integer */ function smarty_modifier_count_sentences($string) { // find periods with a word before but not after. return preg_match_all('/[^\s]\.(?!\w)/', $string, $match); } /* vim: set expandtab: */ ?>