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Small methods make your code easier to understand, in particular if combined with a good name. Besides, if your method is small, finding a good name is usually much easier.
For example, if you find yourself adding comments to a method's body, this is usually a good sign to extract the commented part to a new method, and use the comment as a starting point when coming up with a good name for this new method.
Commonly applied refactorings include:
If many parameters/temporary variables are present:
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| 37 | private static function do_parse(string $pattern): array  | 
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| 38 |     { | 
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| 39 | $tokens = [];  | 
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| 40 | $is_literal = false;  | 
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| 41 | $literal = '';  | 
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| 42 | $z = mb_strlen($pattern);  | 
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| 43 | |||
| 44 |         for ($i = 0; $i < $z; ++$i) { | 
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| 45 | $c = mb_substr($pattern, $i, 1);  | 
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| 46 | |||
| 47 |             if ($c === self::QUOTE) { | 
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| 48 |                 // Two adjacent single vertical quotes (''), which represent a literal single quote, | 
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| 49 | // either inside or outside a quoted text.  | 
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| 50 |                 if (mb_substr($pattern, $i + 1, 1) === self::QUOTE) { | 
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| 51 | $i++;  | 
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| 52 | $literal .= self::QUOTE;  | 
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| 53 |                 } else { | 
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| 54 | // Toggle literal  | 
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| 55 | $is_literal = !$is_literal;  | 
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| 56 | }  | 
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| 57 |             } elseif ($is_literal) { | 
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| 58 | $literal .= $c;  | 
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| 59 |             } elseif (ctype_alpha($c)) { | 
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| 60 |                 if ($literal) { | 
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| 61 | $tokens[] = $literal;  | 
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| 62 | $literal = '';  | 
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| 63 | }  | 
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| 64 | |||
| 65 |                 for ($j = $i + 1; $j < $z; ++$j) { | 
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| 66 | $nc = mb_substr($pattern, $j, 1);  | 
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| 67 |                     if ($nc !== $c) { | 
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| 68 | break;  | 
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| 69 | }  | 
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| 70 | }  | 
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| 71 | $tokens[] = [ $c, $j - $i ];  | 
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| 72 | $i = $j - 1; // because +1 from the for loop  | 
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| 73 |             } else { | 
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| 74 | $literal .= $c;  | 
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| 75 | }  | 
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| 76 | }  | 
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| 77 | |||
| 78 | // If the pattern ends with literal (could also be a malformed quote)  | 
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| 79 |         if ($literal) { | 
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| 80 | $tokens[] = $literal;  | 
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| 81 | }  | 
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| 82 | |||
| 83 | return $tokens;  | 
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| 84 | }  | 
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| 86 |