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# token_get_all

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

token_get_all — Split given source into PHP tokens

### Description

array token_get_all ( string `$source` )

token_get_all() 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() to translate a token value into its string representation.

### Parameters

`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 element 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() 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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