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Package Information: PHP_LexerGenerator
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| translate lexer files in lex2php format into a PHP 5 lexer | New BSD License |
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| 0.3.4 (alpha) was released on 2007-08-18 (Changelog) |
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| Translate a lexer file with a format similar to re2c (http://re2c.org) into a PHP 5 lexer for use with a parser. Unlike re2c (as of re2c version 0.11), generated lexers are state-aware out of the box. Generated lexers are very efficient, more than twice as efficient as other alternatives like csLex (written in C#) because they utilize PHP's built-in Perl-compatible regular expressions to lex for tokens. Now in version 0.3.0+, with processing instruction %longestmatch, generated lexers will always pick the longest string to match, rather than the first. Generated lexers are slightly slower, but match behavior of legacy lexers like flex, lex, re2c. | |
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