Tricky little string parsing challenge

[Geoff Smith <spammealot1@...>]

This one has got me stuck for the moment, can anyone come up with an elegant solution for this without needing external library please.

I have a long string of text that i need to split into sentences, here is a sort of working attempt

 local text = "This is one sentence. This is another but with a number in it like 0.47 need to ignore it. This is the third. Fourth sentence"

local sentences = {}

for i in string.gmatch(text,  "[^%.]+" ) do

sentences[#sentences+1] = i

 end

for i = 1, #sentences do

print(i, sentences[i])

end

Of course I had forgotten about not splitting on decimal points in numbers.  How can I adapt this to ignore the full stop character if surrounded by numbers?

Thanks for any solutions.

Geoff

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