Simple Parser Example

Extend the Doctrine\Common\Lexer\AbstractLexer class and implement the getCatchablePatterns, getNonCatchablePatterns, and getType methods. Here is a very simple example lexer implementation named CharacterTypeLexer. It tokenizes a string to T_UPPER, T_LOWER andT_NUMBER tokens:

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<?php

use Doctrine\Common\Lexer\AbstractLexer;

class CharacterTypeLexer extends AbstractLexer
{
    const T_UPPER =  1;
    const T_LOWER =  2;
    const T_NUMBER = 3;

    protected function getCatchablePatterns()
    {
        return array(
            '[a-bA-Z0-9]',
        );
    }

    protected function getNonCatchablePatterns()
    {
        return array();
    }

    protected function getType(&$value)
    {
        if (is_numeric($value)) {
            return self::T_NUMBER;
        }

        if (strtoupper($value) === $value) {
            return self::T_UPPER;
        }

        if (strtolower($value) === $value) {
            return self::T_LOWER;
        }
    }
}
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Use CharacterTypeLexer to extract an array of upper case characters:

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<?php

class UpperCaseCharacterExtracter
{
    private $lexer;

    public function __construct(CharacterTypeLexer $lexer)
    {
        $this->lexer = $lexer;
    }

    public function getUpperCaseCharacters($string)
    {
        $this->lexer->setInput($string);
        $this->lexer->moveNext();

        $upperCaseChars = array();
        while (true) {
            if (!$this->lexer->lookahead) {
                break;
            }

            $this->lexer->moveNext();

            if ($this->lexer->token['type'] === CharacterTypeLexer::T_UPPER) {
                $upperCaseChars[] = $this->lexer->token['value'];
            }
        }

        return $upperCaseChars;
    }
}

$upperCaseCharacterExtractor = new UpperCaseCharacterExtracter(new CharacterTypeLexer());
$upperCaseCharacters = $upperCaseCharacterExtractor->getUpperCaseCharacters('1aBcdEfgHiJ12');

print_r($upperCaseCharacters);
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The variable $upperCaseCharacters contains all of the upper case characters:

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Array
(
    [0] => B
    [1] => E
    [2] => H
    [3] => J
)
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This is a simple example but it should demonstrate the low level API that can be used to build more complex parsers.