rnapoles/jlex-php-library

A Lexical Analyzer Generator for PHP

dev-main 2022-02-10 07:33 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.1.0

MIT

• Elliot Berk
• C. Scott Ananian
• Wez Furlong
• Eridan Domoratskiy
• Reinier Nápoles Martínez

README

JLexPHP: a Lexical Analyzer Generator for PHP, based on JLex. For copyright and licensing information, see the COPYING file.

This is an adaptation of some Java code that generates lexers from lex style input files.

The porting effort was pretty trivial, with the hardest part being the buffer management.

Usage is fairly typical of lexers; you'll want to create a lexer file like this:

The syntax is described here.

Requirements

Parser that extends AbstractLexer requires lexer generated by JLexPHP.

Install

Via Composer:

composer require rnapoles/jlex-php-library

Examples

Some examples is contained in the link-demos directory in root of repo.

Credits

• Reinier Nápoles Martínez
• Eridan Domoratskiy
• Wez Furlong is author of original JLexPHP
• Elliot Joel Berk and C. Scott Ananian is authors of JLex

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.