token_get_all
    (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
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.
     The function returns an array of token identifiers.  Each individual token
     identifier is either a single character (i.e.: ;,
     ., >, !, etc...),
     or a two element array containing the token index in element 0, and the string
     content of the original token in element 1.
    
     For a list of parser tokens, see Appendix L, or use 
     token_name() to translate a token value into its string
     representation.
    
Example 1. token_get_all() examples <?php
  $tokens = token_get_all('<?'); // => array(array(T_OPEN_TAG, '<?'));
  $tokens = token_get_all('<? echo; ?>'); /* => array(
                                                    array(T_OPEN_TAG,'<?'), 
                                                    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_ML_COMMENT.
   This is because no open/close tags were used in the "code" provided.
   This would be equivalent to putting a comment outside of <? ?> tags in a normal file. */
  $tokens = token_get_all('/* comment */'); // => array(array(T_INLINE_HTML, '/* comment */'));
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