php man page for token_get_all

TOKEN_GET_ALL(3)							 1							  TOKEN_GET_ALL(3)

token_get_all - Split given source into PHP tokens

SYNOPSIS
       array token_get_all (string  $source)

DESCRIPTION
       token_get_all(3) parses the given $source string into PHP language tokens using the Zend engine's lexical scanner.

	For a list of parser tokens, see "List of Parser Tokens", or use token_name(3) to translate a token value into its string representation.

PARAMETERS
	      o $source
		- The PHP source to parse.

RETURN VALUES
	An  array  of token identifiers. Each individual token identifier is either a single character (i.e.: ;, ., >, !, etc...), or a three ele-
       ment array containing the token index in element 0, the string content of the original token in element 1 and the line number in element 2.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      token_get_all(3) examples

	      <?php
	      $tokens = token_get_all('<?php echo; ?>'); /* => array(
								array(T_OPEN_TAG, '<?php'),
								array(T_ECHO, 'echo'),
								';',
								array(T_CLOSE_TAG, '?>') ); */

	      /* Note in the following example that the string is parsed as T_INLINE_HTML
		 rather than the otherwise expected T_COMMENT (T_ML_COMMENT in PHP <5).
		 This is because no open/close tags were used in the "code" provided.
		 This would be equivalent to putting a comment outside of <?php ?> tags in a normal file. */
	      $tokens = token_get_all('/* comment */'); // => array(array(T_INLINE_HTML, '/* comment */'));
	      ?>

CHANGELOG
       +--------+----------------------------------------+
       |Version |					 |
       |	|					 |
       |	|	       Description		 |
       |	|					 |
       +--------+----------------------------------------+
       | 5.2.2	|					 |
       |	|					 |
       |	| Line numbers are returned in element 2 |
       |	|					 |
       +--------+----------------------------------------+
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