count sentence

sumaira manzoor hussain khan

how we can count sentances in list ?
this is my code behind the button .
int count_sentence = 0;
string sentence = textBox2.Text;
ms_word_doc = sentence.Split('.').ToList();
count_sentence=(ms_word_doc);
textBox3.Text = textBox3.Text + Environment.NewLine + "the total no of sentences is " + count_sentence.ToString();

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Vladimir Nani16y ago
Accepted answer
If i understood you:

int count_sentence = 0;
string sentence = textBox1.Text;
count_sentence = sentence.Split('.').ToList().Count - 1;
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + Environment.NewLine + "the total no of sentences is " + count_sentence.ToString();
Sam Hobbs16y ago
It depends on what a sentence is defined to be. In some systems, a sentence is ended by a newline, such as "\r\n". I think but I am not sure that that is what Word does. If a sentence is any text that ends with a period, then it is simply a matter of counting the periods. Some sentences might have text in them that includes a period, so that makes things more complicated. Perhaps you need to at least look at what character follows the period; a sentence should have whitespace after the period. Whitespace would usually be a space or a newline.