Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

Yup, they are pretty much equivalent.

But I have grown accustomed to using the perl one liner in my day to day 
work.

Bubba

On 9/14/25 18:58, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> Yep. This would be my suggestion:
>
> sed -i.bak "s/old_code/new_code/g" *.php
>
> Regards,
> Janky Jay, III
>
> On 9/14/25 05:23PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>> Thanks, now that you mention it, even a vim macro could do some of 
>> the work.
>>
>> Or that classic perl one liner: perl -pi -e s/old/new/g <filename 
>> pattern>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM P.J. Tezza <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks for working on this - I kind of thought I'd be doing it,
>>     but you beat me to it!
>>
>>     Having done this type of work in the past, here is my recommendation:
>>
>>     If there is is anything that can be done with search and replace
>>     across files, use it. Even if there are a few different forms to
>>     be changed, you may be able to run the search and replace once
>>     for each form. The work often goes faster, it is less error prone
>>     and if you later find a mistake, it is usually easier to resolve.
>>
>>     PJ
>>
>>     On 9/14/25 3:52 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>>>     Apart from redefining the top level $maia_sql_dsn in config.php,
>>>     most of the effort for my task is replacing code that looks like
>>>     this:
>>>     --
>>>      $res = $sth->execute();
>>>     if ($row = $res->fetchrow()) {
>>>     -- 
>>>     with code that looks like this:
>>>     --
>>>      $sth->execute();
>>>     if ($row = $sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
>>>     --
>>>     on a file by file basis since every instance is a little
>>>     different. It looks like there are a few dozen such files to fix.
>>>
>>>     It's not much, but it's honest work.
>>>
>>>     Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM jjs - mainphrame
>>>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Since nobody else has committed to the effort, I'm willing
>>>         to at least give it a try.
>>>
>>>         I don't have unlimited time, but I'm going to start looking
>>>         into updating the maia codebase to make it compatible with
>>>         php 8.
>>>
>>>         If anybody else wants to contribute, I'd welcome the help.
>>>
>>>         Joe
>>>
>>>
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