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Jules Colle
Jules Colle

Reputation: 11939

regular expression to replace '<?' by '<?php'

Hi i'm trying to find all occurences of '<?' in my php code. I use eclipse for this, and i tried to search for the folowing pattern: "<\?^[p]" in the hope this would return me all <? occrences, but not the <?php ones..

What's wrong about the regex? I thought I had figured out regular expressions, but it seams like i still have a long way to go :(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 327

Answers (4)

Alexsander Akers
Alexsander Akers

Reputation: 16024

Edited

From what I understand you want to change <? to <?php. Try replacing <\?(?!php) with <?php. (This will prevent <?php from turning into <?phpphp).

Upvotes: 0

Eldad Mor
Eldad Mor

Reputation: 5525

If all fails, you could use a trick with no regexes: replace your <?php occurrences with something else (like for example THE_PHP_TAG), then search for <?, then replace THE_PHP_TAG back to <?php.

Upvotes: 2

vassilis
vassilis

Reputation: 1395

try this: <\?[^p]

Upvotes: 3

Mark Byers
Mark Byers

Reputation: 838806

I'm not familiar with Eclipse's regular expression language but I'd imagine you want this:

"<\?[^p]"

The difference is:

  • [^p] means any character apart from p
  • ^[p] means the start of a new line followed by a p.

But you should check the manual for Eclipse to find out the exact regular expression syntax that Eclipse uses.

Upvotes: 2

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