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greg0/string-builder
====================

Simple PHP string builder inspired by C# StringBuilder

0.1(7y ago)010MITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since Sep 20Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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String builder
==============

[](#string-builder)

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Simple PHP string builder inspired by C# [StringBuilder](https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/dotnet/api/system.text.stringbuilder)

Install
-------

[](#install)

`composer require greg0/string-builder`

Sample usages
-------------

[](#sample-usages)

Creating string

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('Initial string');
$sb->append(' appended string');
$sb->appendLine();
$sb->appendLine('Other paragraph');
$sb->appendFormat('%s: %d', 'Value', 23);
$sb->appendLine();
$sb->append('End of poem.');

echo $sb->toString(); // echo (string)$sb;
```

Result:

```
Initial string appended string
Other paragraph
Value: 23
End of poem.

```

There are provided some string manipulation methods:

#### Insert string into position:

[](#insert-string-into-position)

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('---[]---');
$sb->insert(4, 'o.o');

echo $sb->toString(); // ---[o.o]---
```

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('---[]---');
$sb->insert(4, 'o', 2);

echo $sb->toString(); // ---[oo]---
```

#### Removes the specified range of characters

[](#removes-the-specified-range-of-characters)

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.');
$sb->remove(6, 5); // remove "ipsum"
echo $sb->toString(); // Lorem  dolor sit amet.
```

#### Replaces all occurrences of a specified string with another specified string

[](#replaces-all-occurrences-of-a-specified-string-with-another-specified-string)

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.');
$sb->replace('ipsum', 'lirum');
echo $sb->toString(); // Lorem lirum dolor sit amet.
```

#### Clear string

[](#clear-string)

```
$sb = new StringBuilder('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.');
$sb->clear();
echo $sb->toString(); // will return empty string
```

More examples provided in unit tests.

TODO
----

[](#todo)

- Encoding support
- More test cases
- Advanced "Format" method (see [StringBuilder.AppendFormat](https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/dotnet/api/system.text.stringbuilder.appendformat))
- Many different interface implementations (e.g. Streams)

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 19% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2794d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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