libxstring v1.0.0

  • Published: 2020-03-03

  • Author: Nickolas Burr

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Summary

Parsing and manipulating strings is an integral part of building software, especially software in the context of web-based applications. In PHP, frequent tasks can include:

  • Trim whitespace from string

  • Split string into array of substrings

  • Join array of strings into single string value

These tasks are so inherently common that if you scrutinize any PHP framework of choice, you’re bound to find many instances of expressions like:

  • trim($str, '/')

  • explode('_', $str)

  • implode('/', $arr)

To be clear, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those expressions, fundamental or otherwise. However, if you look closely, you will notice a pattern, which is that the overwhelming majority of instances are trimming, splitting, joining, etc. the same maybe four or so characters, like /, \\, -, and _. These tasks were frequent enough that we desired character-specific functions for each of these use cases, so we put together a compact library to achieve just that.

libxstring v1.0.0 is now available on GitHub.

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