How to get whole sentence that contain particular word?

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How to get whole sentence that contain particular word using javascript?.for example.
i have a paragraph as below.in which i want to find the sentence that contain a word 'device'

A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem.

then getting the result as below.

A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations.

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Posted 1-Sep-13 20:52pm

hasbina

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**Joezer BH** · Answer 1 · 2013-09-01T20:58:00

Solution 1

Hello Hasbina,

Here's the idea on how to do it[^] (in C#).
And here's Javascript's Regex syntax tutorial[^] to implement it in JS.
See tutorials on How to use the RegExp object in JS[^]

Cheers,
Edo

Posted 1-Sep-13 20:58pm

Joezer BH

Updated 1-Sep-13 21:00pm

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ridoy · Answer 2 · 2013-09-01T21:00:00

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See..
Use-javascript-to-get-the-sentence-of-a-clicked-word[^]
Javascript-regexp-find-particular-sentence[^]

Posted 1-Sep-13 21:00pm

ridoy

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hasbina 2-Sep-13 3:33am

sir..

how to use the code below if i use a word instead of click event?

$('p').each(function() {
$(this).html($(this).text().split(/([\.\?!])(?= )/).map(
function(v){return '<span class=sentence>'+v+'</span>'}
));
});

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13386911/use-javascript-to-get-the-sentence-of-a-clicked-word