What OS are you using? This works on Ubuntu: find ./ -type f | xargs sed -i 's/<? /<?php /' Aziz On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Subject pretty much says it all. > > I have a lot of inherited old code where the developer used <? Instead of > <?php everywhere. Wondering if someone has a regex or script that can go > through these files and clean them up, of course it has to be aware of <?= > as valid which is what makes this tricky otherwise it's a pretty simple > search/replace. > > It seems this would be a pretty useful feature to have in ZendStudio since > it is already parsing the whole file anyways and clearly colorizes the <? > <?php and <?= tags so it knows about them. I asked them once for this and > of > course was met with resistance. They're too focused on making Zend > Framework > than an IDE with features that would actually be beneficial to a broader > audience, you know like actual code folding for if/then/else, switch, > do/while, etc. or using array elements as objects with autocomplete, or > giving us automatic magic __get and __set if defined in an inherited class > instead of having to kludge them with @method PHPDoc tricks. But I digress. >
