why does this simple counter fail?

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Sat Mar 26 04:56:43 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 02:30:09AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:12:08 -0400, Brad Mettee <bmettee at pchotshots.com> wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 	I'M trying to decide whether to tatoo this on my forehead or
> > > 	just make a note in my ~/.notes file for the next time this
> > > 	breaks.  if/when.  Meanwhile, the best thingt to do would simply
> > > 	write a script to turn <? into <?php ....   Never know when I'll
> > > 	get into things like <?xml or whatever.
> > >   
> > If you do the <? into <?php, don't forget to do <?phpphp into <?php too. 
> > Otherwise you'll likely corrupt already good tags.
> 

	well, i have a C skeleton that i could modify, but yours below
	looks vastly simpler.  how would i use sed to run this against?


> With 's/<\?$/<\?php/g' and sufficient quoting,
> maybe removing extra spaces, it should be fine. :-)
> 

	ha! doubt if i hv any spaces after <?php.  too lazy;)

	-g

> 
> 
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