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

+1... You could not be so picky about inherited code and just change them when you come across them. --jk On 14 Feb 2014, at 10:53, Aziz Saleh wrote:

What I posted (and all the others) would work, replacing all instances of "<? " (notice the space) with "<?php " should work, it will leave all existing <?= and <?php alone (since having a space after ? and before =/php would produce a parser error. Not sure why you are saying that spaces are irrelevant thou. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:

*sigh* <?=$foo?> is perfectly valid so is <?=$foo;?> or any combination WITH SPACES OR NOT. If this were trivial, I wouldn't have asked the list. I've been coding PHP since 1996. ;-) So if you have <? you have to make sure it doesn't have a '=' after the '?' to convert to '<?php' Spaces are irrelevant and can NOT be relied upon as a unique feature.

-----Original Message----- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:57 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but

not

<?=) 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

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