// wink-nlp-utils
// NLP Functions for amplifying negations, managing elisions,
// creating ngrams, stems, phonetic codes to tokens and more.
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var rgx = require( './util_regexes.js' );
// ## string
// ### removePunctuations
/**
*
* Removes each punctuation mark by replacing it with a whitespace. It looks for
* the following punctuations — `.,;!?:"!'... - () [] {}`.
*
* Extra spaces, if required, may be removed using [string.removeExtraSpaces](#stringremoveextraspaces)
* function.
*
* @alias string#removePunctuations
* @param {string} str the input string.
* @return {string} input string after removal of punctuations.
* @example
* removePunctuations( 'Punctuations like "\'\',;!?:"!... are removed' );
* // -> 'Punctuations like are removed'
*/
var removePunctuations = function ( str ) {
return str.replace( rgx.punctuations, ' ' );
}; // removePunctuations()
module.exports = removePunctuations;