Implement tokenization in a C extension.

lib/liquid.rb

@@ -30,16 +30,13 @@ module Liquid
   VariableSegment             = /[\w\-]/
   VariableStart               = /\{\{/
   VariableEnd                 = /\}\}/
-  VariableIncompleteEnd       = /\}\}?/
   QuotedString                = /"[^"]*"|'[^']*'/
   QuotedFragment              = /#{QuotedString}|(?:[^\s,\|'"]|#{QuotedString})+/o
   TagAttributes               = /(\w+)\s*\:\s*(#{QuotedFragment})/o
-  AnyStartingTag              = /\{\{|\{\%/
-  PartialTemplateParser       = /#{TagStart}.*?#{TagEnd}|#{VariableStart}.*?#{VariableIncompleteEnd}/om
-  TemplateParser              = /(#{PartialTemplateParser}|#{AnyStartingTag})/om
   VariableParser              = /\[[^\]]+\]|#{VariableSegment}+\??/o
 end
 
+require 'liquid/liquid'
 require "liquid/version"
 require 'liquid/lexer'
 require 'liquid/parser'

lib/liquid/template.rb

@@ -162,16 +162,9 @@ module Liquid
 
     private
 
-    # Uses the <tt>Liquid::TemplateParser</tt> regexp to tokenize the passed source
     def tokenize(source)
       source = source.source if source.respond_to?(:source)
-      return [] if source.to_s.empty?
-      tokens = source.split(TemplateParser)
-
-      # removes the rogue empty element at the beginning of the array
-      tokens.shift if tokens[0] and tokens[0].empty?
-
-      tokens
+      Tokenizer.new(source.to_s)
     end
 
   end