painless-php/string

String helper functionality for PHP

v2.1.0 2025-06-01 13:51 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• ext-mbstring: *

Requires (Dev)

• phpbench/phpbench: ^1.2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.1
• spatie/phpunit-watcher: ^1.22
• vlucas/phpdotenv: ^v5.5.0

MIT

• helpers
• string

README

String helper functionality for PHP

Installation

composer require painless-php/string

Public API

Core

• Str
• StrBuilder

Exception

• PainlessPHP\String\Exception\StringSearchException
• PainlessPHP\String\Exception\StringTypeConversionException

Development

Dynamic method doc generation

Use php bin/generate_builder_docblock.php to generate phpdocumentor docblocks for the methods that can be called dynamically from StrBuilder.

TODO

• generate Str method list in docs with a markdown table

• bump required php version to 8.4 and add $builder->str getter for the result string

• methods

  • findFirstLineContaining
  • findLinesContaining
  • findLastLineContaining
  • trimLines
  • editLines