Re: Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but not <?=)

For bonus points:

    (<\?\s+)\b

Capture group also looking for a word boundary. http://l.kehn.io/image/1N202N3s082t

    <\?=.+(;\s+)\?>

Matches: http://l.kehn.io/image/242l003n3q1O Short tags? Really? Why do I bother. --jk On 12 Feb 2014, at 14:56, Daevid Vincent wrote:

Thanks guys for the replies so far, however, if it were a simple search and replace I wouldn't have to ask ;-) The trick is that "<?=" is valid and legal and I want to keep those. I only want to change if they are specifically "<?" Maybe there is some regex guru out there that knows the magic incantation. Related, for extra credit it drives me bonkers to see this: Hello <?= $username; ?> Note the end semicolon on the variable. I'd want to strip all those off too, but that is also not a trivial task if you think about it as it can only be removed if proceeded with <?= -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php