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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 ( [id://1062343]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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

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;
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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]
      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;
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