Re: stripping enclosed text from PHP code

On 09/04/06, Winfried Meining <wim@csb.ki.se> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am writing on a script that parses a PHP script and finds all function calls > to check, if these functions exist. To do this, I needed a function that would > strip out all text, which is enclosed in apostrophes or quotation marks. This > is somewhat tricky, as the script needs to be aware of what really is an > enclosed text and what is PHP code. So use the built in tokenizer functions which know exactly what's enclosed text and what is php code. Much quicker and more reliable than trying to do the same job with regular expressions. http://se.php.net/tokenizer -robin