public static function parseScalar($scalar, $delimiters = null, $stringDelimiters = array('"', "'"), &$i = 0, $evaluate = true)
    {
        if (in_array($scalar[$i], $stringDelimiters)) {
            // quoted scalar
            $output = self::parseQuotedScalar($scalar, $i);

            if (null !== $delimiters) {
                $tmp = ltrim(substr($scalar, $i), ' ');
                if (!in_array($tmp[0], $delimiters)) {
                    throw new ParseException(sprintf('Unexpected characters (%s).', substr($scalar, $i)));
                }
            }
        } else {
            // "normal" string
            if (!$delimiters) {
                $output = substr($scalar, $i);
                $i += strlen($output);

                // remove comments
                if (false !== $strpos = strpos($output, ' #')) {
                    $output = rtrim(substr($output, 0, $strpos));
                }
            } elseif (preg_match('/^(.+?)('.implode('|', $delimiters).')/', substr($scalar, $i), $match)) {
                $output = $match[1];
                $i += strlen($output);
            } else {
                throw new ParseException(sprintf('Malformed inline YAML string (%s).', $scalar));
            }

            $output = $evaluate ? self::evaluateScalar($output) : $output;
        }

        return $output;
    }