match not working as expected

[Trel]

my example line is

 

preg_match_all("/[.]+/","The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.",$matches);

 

I would expect it to match the whole thing, but what it actually matches is the period.

 

How would I make that match the whole line in this case?

[sasa]

try

preg_match_all("/.+/","The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.",$matches);

 

[salathe]

Cags answered this on IRC (remember to come back and update posts!), for the benefit of other readers the dot character is not special within a character class (square brackets); i.e. it was only matching the literal dot.