ParseJS. An easy function I made to tokenize things.

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Want to make a math evaluater? A programming language mockup? A document format? A file reader?
If you want to make any of those, my small one-function library is for you! :D

This is the function signature:

function parse_string(
    str:string,
    toks:Array<string>
):Array<string|symbol>;

How does it work?
It takes a string to scan and a list of tokens. If a token is found; a symbol (Symbol.for( tok )) is inserted, otherwise the character in the string being scanned is inserted -- and the final result is returned.

Here is an example of the function in action!

The documentation looks like this:

Parses a string and returns a list consisting of one of
length-1-`string` (`char`) or `symbol`, representing the
tokens the scanner finds.
Every time a token is successfully found, a symbol
representing the token is inserted, otherwise
the current character is used instead.