Are there any specific strategies or techniques that can be employed to address the issue of splitting a string after certain abbreviations, like "z. b.", without affecting other parts of the string?

When splitting a string after certain abbreviations like "z. b.", we can use regular expressions to match the abbreviation followed by a period and a space, and then split the string at that point without affecting other parts of the string. This can be achieved by using the preg_split function in PHP with the appropriate regular expression pattern. 

$string = "This is a sample string with abbreviations like z. b. and others.";
$abbreviations = ["z. b."];
$pattern = '/(' . implode('|', array_map('preg_quote', $abbreviations)) . ')\. /';
$parts = preg_split($pattern, $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);

print_r($parts);

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PHP string manipulation explode preg_split regular expressions

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