public static function import_once($path)
 {
     $path = String_helper::to_slash($path);
     require_once dirname(__DIR__) . "/../{$path}.php";
 }
 * 
 * String Helper
 * 
 * @category   Plugins
 * @package    String Helper
 * @version    0.1.0
 * @since      0.1.0
 * @author     George Ornbo <*****@*****.**>
 * @see        {@link http://github.com/shapeshed/string_helper.ee_addon/} 
 * @license    {@link http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php} 
 */
/**
* Plugin information used by ExpressionEngine
* @global array $plugin_info
*/
$plugin_info = array('pi_name' => 'String Helper', 'pi_version' => '0.1.0', 'pi_author' => 'George Ornbo', 'pi_author_url' => 'http://shapeshed.com/', 'pi_description' => 'Provides helper methods for manipulating strings', 'pi_usage' => String_helper::usage());
class String_helper
{
    /**
     * Tag data holds the inital ExpressionEngine tag data.
     * It is then used as the array to hold parsed data and returned.
     * @var array
     * @access public
     */
    private $tagdata;
    /**
     * Data sent back to calling function
     * @var string
     * @access public
     */
    public $return_data;