On Friday 03 January 2003 09:17 am, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> I have a script with some functions and within the script I want to read
> the code from one of the functions into a string.
you'd probably have to fopen/fgets or file, and then parse for the function
start and end and read the contents. i don't know of any functions
in PHP that will let you do this automatically so you'll probably have to
do this by hand. or pass it off to an external parsing program (written with
whatever you prefer, flex and bison?) which returns the contents.
sorry, i know that's not much help. but it looks like you'll have to
do this the hard way. you don't have to do a full parse though if all
you want is the text. you just need to identify function bodies,
where the function body starts and ends, how to associate the
function body with the function name, etc. you could probably
do this even with just some basic text processing code instead
of writing something using a lexer and parser. although the full
lexer/parser path might be better (you can probably still avoid lexing
or parsing most of the rest of the language).
out of curiousity. what do you need this for? :)
tiger
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