How to add multiple delimeters to a regular expression?

[vahid mirjamal]

String tokens[] = essayInput.split("\\.");

How can i get that to also recognize the following:

a space, ! ? and .

I've been trying for hours, and only got the period to work.

Any ideas?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Vahid,
If you put the character between braces, the special meaning doesn't apply. For example:
[ .?!]+

This matches one or more of a few special characters

[vahid mirjamal]

Thanks!
What's the plus for?

Also how do you get it to exclude extra spaces in between two words like if someone says : I like cake. it would count 3 spaces instead of 1. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Vikas Kapoor]

vahid mirjamal wrote:Thanks!
What's the plus for?

You might need to look at Regex
It's bit tedious.

And I read your first post but I couldn't understand your problem. Can you be little more clear?

[Campbell Ritchie]

I think the plus means "one or more occurrences of . . . "