in reply to Using punctuation to split a text

almost ... :-) 
split /[.!]/, $text;

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anyway, I suggest you read perlre.

Enjoy,
Mickey

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Re^2: Using punctuation to split a text
by UrbanHick (Sexton) on Nov 04, 2006 at 09:28 UTC

    So this should do the trick: 

    @sentences =split([.?!\L], $text);

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    Thank you for your help.

    -UH
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