Batch script to replace PHP short open tags with <?php

Question

I have a large collection of php files written over the years and I need to properly replace all the short open tags into proper explicit open tags.

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Answer 1

I've had to go through this before and I found it best to do it in stages. A bad script trying to catch it all can mess up a LOT of files.

I used Coda (or any other web editor) to do a simple find and replace on very specific strings.

For example starting with "

It may seem a little more tedious but I was confident that something wasn't getting messed up somewhere that I didn't know about. Going back is a real pain.