How can I put sentences into an array?

[mcrae]

Hello everyone, I'm really new to php, here is what I want to do.

 

Search through a body of text, untill it reaches "." "!" or "?" followed by single or double quotes, or a space. then put all text its gone through so far into the first array element. Then start over from that position.

 

I was trying to do it like this: $url = explode("[.|/?|!] ", $_REQUEST["text"]);

but it wasn't working, I can only get it to work for a single punctuation, and then the data in the arrays doesn't have punctuation, which is a bad thing. Can anyone help please?

 

The final purpose of the script is to display the shortest 5 and longest 5 sentences in the text, if that matters at all

[Barand]

use split() instead of explode().

 

www.php.net/split

 

You still lose the final punctuation but that won't affect your final purpose to find shortest and longest

[boo_lolly]

yeah to elaborate it'd be something like:

<?php
    $sentences = split('[.|/?|!] ', $string);
    print '<pre>'; print_r($sentences); print '</pre>';
?>