Write a lexer in PHP with Lexical

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I recently released a new PHP package called "Lexical". It provides a set of attributes and objects to build regular expression based lexers in PHP. If you want to skip the blog post and go straight to the package, the repository is public on GitHub . As somebody who enjoys experimenting with parsers and text processing, writing lexers has become a somewhat regular task for me. The first step in…

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