/**
* Takes a given piece of text and parses it for YAML
*
* @param string $yaml The YAML to parse
* @return array
*/
public static function parse($yaml)
{
// reset replacements since these don't apply from parse to parse
self::$replacements = array();
self::$replacement_types = array();
self::$i = 0;
// prepare the YAML by removing comments, standardizing line-endings
$yaml = self::prepare($yaml);
// get indent
self::setIndent($yaml);
// break into structures
$structures = self::breakIntoStructures($yaml);
// parse structures
return self::parseStructures($structures, true);
}
