Does anyone have a PHP snippet of code for grabbing the first “sentence” in a string?

Question

If I have a description like:

\"We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed. Provide details. Write clearly and simply.\"

Answer 1

A slightly more costly expression, however will be more adaptable if you wish to select multiple types of punctuation as sentence terminators.

$sentence = preg_replace('/([^?!.]*.).*/', '\\1', $string);

Find termination characters followed by a space

$sentence = preg_replace('/(.*?[?!.](?=\s|$)).*/', '\\1', $string);