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Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces
From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle)

Ian P. Christian wrote:

>On Sunday 20 November 2005 22:27, Ian P. Christian wrote:
>  
>
>>If this change included a simple sed command that could be applied to code
>>to fix 'legacy' code
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, should have included this...
>
>For example: 
>
>$ cat test
><?php
>
>  $moo{3};
>
>  $foo = $moo{12};
>
>?>
>
>
>$ sed -e 's/$\([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*\){\([0-9]*\)}/substr($\1,\2,1)/g' test
><?php
>
>  substr($moo,3,1);
>
>  $foo = substr($moo,12,1);
>
>?>
>  
>
Doesn't work to well with

$$moo{1};

or

$moo = array( 1 => 'foo');
$moo{1};