Parsing sentences from a String in Swift

I’ve been looking at how to parse sentences from text recently. While I’m still looking for a more Machine Learning approach, I found NSStringEnumerationBySentences which can get me there faster (for now).  I need to get all of the sentences from a given String.  This could easily be an Objective-C category method.  But, I’m trying to learn as much Swift as I can. I haven’t played with extensions yet. Here we go. enumerateSubstringsInRange:options:usingBlock: is what I’ll need, but I need the extension first:

extension String {

    var fullSentences: [String] {

    }

}

Fiddling with Swift’s closure syntax for a little while, and using the shorthand for NSStringEnumerationBySentences, I end up with this:

extension String {

    var fullSentences: [String] {

        var sentences = [String]()

        let range = self.rangeOfString(self)

        

        self.enumerateSubstringsInRange(range, options: .BySentences) { substring, substringRange, enclosingRange, inout in

            sentences += substring

        }

        

        return sentences

    }

}

This could have been condensed even more, but I find this very hard to read:

extension String {

    var fullSentences: [String] {

        var sentences = [String]()

        let range = self.rangeOfString(self)

        

        self.enumerateSubstringsInRange(range, options: .BySentences) { substring, _, _, _ in

            sentences += substring

        }

        

        return sentences

    }

}

Ah, but alas. Now I can’t use this in Objective-C. It won’t see the String extension. It needs to be NSString:

extension NSString {

    var fullSentences: [String] {

        var sentences = [String]()

        let range = self.rangeOfString(self)

        

        self.enumerateSubstringsInRange(range, options: .BySentences) { substring, substringRange, enclosingRange, inout in

            sentences += substring

        }

        

        return sentences

    }

}

I haven’t quite figured out the naming convention for Swift Extension files yet. Right now, I have this in StringExtentions.swift in my categories folder. Though…. I guess to be proper it should be NSStringExtentions.swift…