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word-boundaries.js
const text = `Þig, sem í fjarlægð fjöllin bak við dvelur
og fagrar vonir tengdir líf mitt við,
minn hugur þráir, hjartað ákaft saknar,
er horfnum—stundum ljúfum dvel ég hjá.
Heyrirðu ei hvern hjartað kallar á?
Heyrirðu ei storm er kveðju mína ber?
Þú fagra minning eftir skildir eina,
sem aldrei gleymist, meðan lífs ég er.`
const enDashEmDashOrForwardSlash = /[\u2013\u2014/]/g;
const anyCombinationOfCharactersNumbersOrPunctuationMarks = /[\p{L}\p{N}][\p{L}\S]*/gu
console.log(text
.normalize("NFKC")
.replace(enDashEmDashOrForwardSlash, " ")
.match(anyCombinationOfCharactersNumbersOrPunctuationMarks)?.length ?? 0)
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