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stillat/primitives
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Parses strings of primitive values into a PHP array.

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[![Primitives](banner.png)](banner.png)

This library provides a simple way to convert a string of simple values to their PHP runtime equivalents.

This library will parse the following types of values:

- Numbers
- Strings
- Arrays
- Associative arrays
- true, false, null
- Built-in PHP constants

Unknown types will return `null` as their value.

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

[](#installation)

This library can be installed with composer:

```
composer require stillat/primitives

```

Example Usage
-------------

[](#example-usage)

To use the library, create a new instance of the `Parser` class and call the `parseString` method:

```