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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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| 107 | * @param string $nodeValue The node value  | 
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| 108 | * @return array contains [node->type, node->value]  | 
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| 109 | */  | 
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| 110 | private function define($nodeValue):array  | 
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| 111 |     { | 
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| 112 | $v = substr($nodeValue, 1);  | 
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| 113 |         if (in_array($nodeValue[0], ['"', "'"])) { | 
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| 114 | $type = R::isProperlyQuoted($nodeValue) ? T::QUOTED : T::PARTIAL;  | 
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| 115 | return [$type, $nodeValue];  | 
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| 116 | }  | 
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| 117 |         if (in_array($nodeValue[0], ['{', '[']))      return $this->onObject($nodeValue); | 
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| 118 | if (in_array($nodeValue[0], ['!', '&', '*'])) return $this->onNodeAction($nodeValue);  | 
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| 119 |         switch ($nodeValue[0]) { | 
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| 120 | case '#': return [T::COMMENT, ltrim($v)];  | 
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| 121 | case "-": return $this->onHyphen($nodeValue);  | 
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| 122 | case '%': return [T::DIRECTIVE, ltrim($v)];  | 
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| 123 | case '?': return [T::SET_KEY, empty($v) ? null : new Node(ltrim($v), $this->line)];  | 
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| 124 | case ':': return [T::SET_VALUE, empty($v) ? null : new Node(ltrim($v), $this->line)];  | 
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| 125 | case '>': return [T::LITTERAL_FOLDED, null];  | 
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