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strscan/strscan
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Simple string tokenizer for lexical scanning operations

1.0.3(11y ago)13146.8k↓18.6%12MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

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strscan-php
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[](#strscan-php)

strscan-php is a simple string tokenizer for lexical scanning operations. It's a PHP port of [strscan-js](https://github.com/sstephenson/strscan-js), which in turn is a JavaScript port of the Ruby library with the same name. This library assumes the mbstring extension is enabled and all strings to be UTF-8.

Installation
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[](#installation)

The recommended way to install strscan-php is [through composer](http://getcomposer.org).

Usage
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[](#usage)

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