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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.

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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;
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