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phplrt/lexer
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The phplrt lexer library that can be used for scanners implementation using PCRE

3.7.5(1y ago)3156.6k—1.2%8MITPHPPHP ^8.1CI passing

Since May 5Pushed 2mo ago1 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (8)Versions (62)Used By (8)

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Lexer
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[](#lexer)

This is a subtree split of the phplrt lexer component.

### Resources

[](#resources)

- [Documentation](https://github.com/phplrt/phplrt/blob/master/README.md)
- [Repository](https://github.com/phplrt/phplrt)
    - [Issues](https://github.com/phplrt/phplrt/issues)
    - [Pull Requests](https://github.com/phplrt/phplrt/pulls)

###  Health Score

54

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FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance63

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity82

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88.9% 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 ~33 days

Recently: every ~14 days

Total

61

Last Release

558d ago

Major Versions

1.1.0 → 2.0.02019-09-08

2.3.6 → 3.0.02020-03-05

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=7.1.3

3.0.0PHP >=7.4

3.1.8PHP ^7.4|^8.0

3.5.2PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/150420?v=4)[Ruslan Sharipov](/maintainers/Serafim)[@serafim](https://github.com/serafim)

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Top Contributors

[![SerafimArts](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2461257?v=4)](https://github.com/SerafimArts "SerafimArts (144 commits)")[![actions-user](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/65916846?v=4)](https://github.com/actions-user "actions-user (18 commits)")

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Tags

lexerpcrepcre2phplrtregextokenizerstreamlexertokenregextokenizerparsingscanner

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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