note 28150 added to features.commandline

i was hoping for more really. perl command line interface offers a lot more features and less syntactical complications. i really like that the developers are coming along with features like this but i was thinking it would be more advanced by now. i don't want to continue using perl either but i would have to think that it's still far more powerful than this. my friend asked me "what is the fastest way to change a bunch of text in several files" .. i thought of php but then i thought perl on the command line is much faster and requires half the write time.<br> perl -i -pe 's/expression/replacement/g' *.ext<br><br> he came back to me again and asked for a way to rename a bunch of files. i thought of perl again. <br> find . -type f | perl -ne'chomp; next unless -e; $oldname = $_; s/oldname/newname/g; next if -e; rename $oldname, $_'<br><br> the list goes on. but the point is that there should be more to this. perl is still better. it's ugly and old and been obfuscated but still the features are there and they are rich. <br><br> there are other problems with php as well. i won't get into them but one of the most prevalent is exception handling. even python is better at this than php. perl utilizes the try, catch block, python calls it try, except ... virtually every language has this. why not php?<br><br> maybe that sounds too overboard. i think php will have it i think php will be the defacto standard in web application languages. but i wonder about the direction sometimes. why work on this CLI when your OOP support is still soo weak? -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28150 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28150 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28150