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A simple string tokenizer which takes a string and splits it on
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whitespace. It also optionally takes a string of characters to use as
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delimiters, and returns them with the token set as well. This allows for
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splitting the string in many different ways.
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This is a very basic tokenizer, so more complex needs should be either
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addressed with a custom written tokenizer or post-processing of the output
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generated by this module. Basically, this will not fill everyones needs,
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but it spans a gap between simple split / /, $string and the other options
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that involve much larger and complex modules.
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Also note that this is not a lexical analyser. Many people confuse
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tokenization with lexical analysis. A tokenizer mearly splits its input
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into specific chunks, a lexical analyzer classifies those chunks.
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Sometimes these two steps are combined, but not here.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Tokenizer/
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