Re: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter?

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Re^2: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by taint (Chaplain) on Nov 13, 2013 at 07:05 UTC
LOL I see it as sort of regex puzzle. I can almost complete it in my head with sed. But personal evaluation tells me my Perl RE's fall far short of the mark. I'll have to push it off for a day when my Perl RE's can match my current sed skills. But by then. Who knows? :) Thanks for taking the time to respond, and thanks for your honesty. :) --Chris #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use Perl::Always or die; my $perl_version = (5.12.5); print $perl_version;	[reply]
Re^3: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by einhverfr (Friar) on Nov 18, 2013 at 05:33 UTC
Don't use regexp's for the same reason that you shouldn't use them for parsing HTML. Parse::RecDescent would be a better tool, I think. You might be able to handle the basic syntax that way but what about folks using PDO? It looks superficially like DBI, but... So I doubt you can do that much other than handling very simple cases.	[reply]
Re^4: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by taint (Chaplain) on Nov 18, 2013 at 06:58 UTC
Greetings, einhverfr. Really good points -- especially where PDO's concerned. I hadn't thought about that. :( But I'm not totally convinced, where HTML is concerned (yet) :) Thanks for the response, einhverfr.. --Chris #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use Perl::Always or die; my $perl_version = (5.12.5); print $perl_version;	[reply]