(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7)
A “break iterator” is an ICU object that exposes methods for locating boundaries in text (e.g. word or sentence boundaries). The PHP IntlBreakIterator serves as the base class for all types of ICU break iterators. Where extra functionality is available, the intl extension may expose the ICU break iterator with suitable subclasses, such as IntlRuleBasedBreakIterator or IntlCodePointBreakIterator.
This class implements Traversable. Traversing an IntlBreakIterator yields non-negative integer values representing the successive locations of the text boundaries, expressed as UTF-8 code units (byte) counts, taken from the beginning of the text (which has the location 0). The keys yielded by the iterator simply form the sequence of natural numbers {0, 1, 2, …}.
IntlBreakIterator::DONE
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_NONE
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_NONE_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_NUMBER
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_NUMBER_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_LETTER
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_LETTER_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_KANA
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_KANA_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_IDEO
IntlBreakIterator::WORD_IDEO_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::LINE_SOFT
IntlBreakIterator::LINE_SOFT_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::LINE_HARD
IntlBreakIterator::LINE_HARD_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::SENTENCE_TERM
IntlBreakIterator::SENTENCE_TERM_LIMIT
IntlBreakIterator::SENTENCE_SEP
IntlBreakIterator::SENTENCE_SEP_LIMIT