Question

I have some text inside $content var, like this:

$content = $page_data->post_content;

I need to slice the content somehow and extract the sentences, inserting each one inside it’s own var.
Something like this:

$sentence1 = 'first sentence of the text';
$sentence2 = 'second sentence of the text';

and so on…

How can I do this?

PS
I am thinking of something like this, but I need somekind of loop for each sentence:

$match = null;
preg_match('/(.*?[?\.!]{1,3})/', $content, $match);  
$sentence1 = $match[1];   
$sentence2 = $match[2]; 

Ty:)

Answer 1

Assuming a sentence is delimited by terminating punctuation, optionally followed by a space, you can do the following to get the sentences in an array.

$sentences = preg_split('/[!?\.]\s?/', $content);

You may want to trim any additional spaces as well with

$sentences = array_map('trim', $sentences);

This way, $sentences[0] is the first, $sentences[1] is the second and so on. If you need to loop through them you can use foreach:

foreach($sentences as $sentence) {
  // Do something with $sentence...
}