Replace “<?php print t('Blabla'); ?>” to be “Blabla”

Question

Lets say in file.php, there is lots of php print text: <?php print t('Blabla'); ?>, <?php print t('Text Here'); ?>, etc.

What I need is to remove <?php print t(' and '); ?> of the php print text.

So, <?php print t('Blabla'); ?> will become Blabla, <?php print t('Text Here'); ?> will become Text Here, etc.

If one php print text in one line, I think I know how to use sed to replace, but how about if one long line contains several php print text

I just wonder how to replace it?

Not sure if I understand your question correctly. If you add a g at the end of the sed command, it tries to match multiple occurences on the same line. sed 's/bladibla-As-Is/bladibla-To-Be/g'
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know about the g. I just wonder (if can) single line command that will remove <?php print t(' and '); ?> of the php print text. (Question updated. Hope it will be easier to understand)

manatwork · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-02 16:01:26Z

I suppose your intention is to remove an old internationalization system from your PHP scripts.

perl -e 'undef$/;$s=<>;$s=~s/<\?php\s+(?:print|echo)\s+t\((['"'"'"])(.*?)\1\);\s+\?>/$2/gs;print$s' apasajja

This has some improvements not asked in the question:

But there are still enough situations in which will fail.

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