docs/extractor.md
# Extractor
Sometimes you have a piece of text that contains an enum value that you want to
use. With this you can simply pass a multiline string and extract all enums that
are mentioned by value.
Note: This also works with `Mappers`, you can either pass along a mapper as
second parameter or use the `Mappers`trait in case you need the default mapper
feature.
## Usage
```php
use Henzeb\Enumhancer\Concerns\Extractor;
enum YourEnum: string {
use Extractor;
case ENUM = 'enum';
case ENUM2 = 'another enum';
}
enum YourOtherEnum: int {
use Extractor;
case ENUM = 0;
case ENUM2 = 1;
}
```
### Examples
```php
YourEnum::extract('you can find another enum here'); // returns [YourEnum::ENUM2]
YourEnum::extract('A lot of text with (enum)'); // returns [YourEnum::ENUM]
YourEnum::extract('another enum (enum)'); // returns [YourEnum::ENUM2, YourEnum::ENUM]
YourEnum::extract('extract case sensitive another ENUM') // returns [YourEnum::ENUM2];
YourEnum::extract('contains multiple enums') // returns [];
YourOtherEnum::extract('I found 1 truth'); // returns [YourOtherEnum::ENUM2]
YourOtherEnum::extract('has 1 truth 0 lies'); // returns [YourOtherEnum::ENUM2, YourOtherEnum::ENUM]
YourOtherEnum::extract('I found 100 lies'); // returns []
```
Note: You can use `Mappers` in combination with `Extractor`. This might be
helpful when the source has multiple or different notations of your enum cases.