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kothman/lexer
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A lexical analyser.

0.1.2(9y ago)022MITPHP

Since Aug 20Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Lexer
=====

[](#lexer)

Performs lexical analysis on a string given a set of rules.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Via Composer

```
composer require kothman\lexer

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$expression = '( 1 + 2 )-3';
$lexer = new Kothman\Lexer\Lexer($expression, Kothman\Lexer\ArithmeticRules::class);
print_r($lexer->getTokens());

```

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 31% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

3600d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4342254?v=4)[Morgan Kothman](/maintainers/kothman)[@kothman](https://github.com/kothman)

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Top Contributors

[![kothman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4342254?v=4)](https://github.com/kothman "kothman (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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