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 <?=
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