Advanced PHP Strings

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Working with multibyte strings, Unicode, and UTF-8 can feel intimidating when writing PHP. Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel offers a guided experience navigating the different techniques to properly work with and manage multibyte strings. The book also offers extensive discussions around the Laravel string helper methods to provide a familiar reference point while navigating the intricacies of string and text manipulation. Through hundreds of hand-crafted examples and in-depth discussions, you will learn how to: * Read and write multibyte strings using PHP * Safely loop through the characters of a multibyte string * Work with over sixty Laravel string helper methods and fluent strings * Manage documents with a variety of different line-ending styles * Convert string positions to line and column numbers (and back) Large, hands-on example projects include: * Writing a Gherkin language parser from the ground up * Planning and developing a system to validate Laravel Blade directives * Parsing HTML documents with embedded templating languages