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| Paths | 70 | 
| Total Lines | 62 | 
| Code Lines | 49 | 
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| Bugs | 0 | Features | 0 | 
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:
| 1 | <?php  | 
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| 24 | public function evaluate($string)  | 
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| 25 |     { | 
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| 26 | $string = '<?php ' . $string;  | 
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| 27 | $comparison1 = $comparison2 = '';  | 
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| 28 | $operator = null;  | 
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| 29 | $tokens = token_get_all($string);  | 
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| 30 | array_shift($tokens);  | 
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| 31 |         foreach ($tokens as $token) { | 
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| 32 |             if (is_array($token)) { | 
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| 33 |                 if (in_array($token[0], $this->operators)) { | 
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| 34 | $operator = $token[1];  | 
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| 35 |                 } else if ($token[0] == T_STRING || $token[0] == T_WHITESPACE || $token[0] == T_LNUMBER) { | 
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| 36 |                     if ($operator === null) { | 
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| 37 | $comparison1 .= $token[1];  | 
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| 38 |                     } else { | 
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| 39 | $comparison2 .= $token[1];  | 
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| 40 | }  | 
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| 41 | }  | 
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| 42 |             } else if (in_array($token, $this->stringOperators)) { | 
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| 43 | $operator = $token;  | 
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| 44 | }  | 
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| 45 | }  | 
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| 46 | |||
| 47 | $comparison1 = trim($comparison1);  | 
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| 48 | $comparison2 = trim($comparison2);  | 
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| 49 | |||
| 50 |         if ($operator === null) { | 
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| 51 | $isTrue = in_array($comparison1, $this->reservedTrue);  | 
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| 52 | if ($isTrue) return true;  | 
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| 53 | |||
| 54 | $isFalse = in_array($comparison1, $this->reservedFalse);  | 
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| 55 | if ($isFalse) return false;  | 
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| 56 | |||
| 57 | return (boolean)$comparison1;  | 
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| 58 |         } else { | 
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| 59 |             switch ($operator) { | 
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| 60 | case '==':  | 
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| 61 | return $comparison1 == $comparison2;  | 
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| 62 | break;  | 
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| 63 | case '!=':  | 
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| 64 | return $comparison1 != $comparison2;  | 
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| 65 | break;  | 
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| 66 | case '>':  | 
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| 67 | return $comparison1 > $comparison2;  | 
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| 68 | break;  | 
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| 69 | case '<':  | 
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| 70 | return $comparison1 < $comparison2;  | 
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| 71 | break;  | 
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| 72 | case '>=':  | 
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| 73 | return $comparison1 >= $comparison2;  | 
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| 74 | break;  | 
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| 75 | case '<=':  | 
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| 76 | return $comparison1 <= $comparison2;  | 
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| 77 | break;  | 
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| 78 | default:  | 
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| 79 | return false;  | 
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| 80 | break;  | 
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| 81 | |||
| 82 | }  | 
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| 83 | }  | 
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| 84 | return false;  | 
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| 85 | }  | 
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| 86 | |||
| 88 | 
The break statement is not necessary if it is preceded for example by a return statement:
If you would like to keep this construct to be consistent with other case statements, you can safely mark this issue as a false-positive.