[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_LexerGenerator-0.4.0 (alpha) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_LexerGenerator-0.4.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- QA release Request #11914 Single line comments Request #11917 Faster regexp matching with \G instead of substr() Bug #11919 Missing spaces in exception messages Bug #12144 Integrated patch + unit test Bug #12638 Undefined offset: 0 in PHP/LexerGenerator/Parser.php on line 390 Request #11912 Case-insensitive literal strings Package Info ------------ Translate a lexer file with a format similar to re2c (http://re2c.org) into a PHP 5 lexer for use with a parser. Unlike re2c (as of re2c version 0.11), generated lexers are state-aware out of the box. Generated lexers are very efficient, more than twice as efficient as other alternatives like csLex (written in C#) because they utilize PHP's built-in Perl-compatible regular expressions to lex for tokens. Now in version 0.3.0+, with processing instruction %longestmatch, generated lexers will always pick the longest string to match, rather than the first. Generated lexers are slightly slower, but match behavior of legacy lexers like flex, lex, re2c. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_LexerGenerator Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_LexerGenerator/download/0.4.0 Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_LexerGenerator-0.4.0.tgz Authors ------- Greg Beaver (lead)