[TxMt] Re: Parse entire project with regex

[Constantinos Neophytou ♎]

As a followup, I guess what I'm looking for is something along the  
lines of what xgettext does, but directory-based instead of file- 
based, and also the ability to provide my own custom 'keywords' (I  
also use this in smarty templates, in the form of {'text'|__} ).  
Something like pybabel, but for php... I'm starting to wonder how  
complicated this should be, as it sounds like a fairly easy task...

On 9 Sep 2007, at 18:13, Constantinos Neophytou ♎ wrote:

> I have a question that I'm sure has a simple solution, and if my  
> brain worked properly these days I'd be able to find it either  
> online or somewhere in the archives... But I can't, so here goes...
>
> I need to parse an entire project through a regex, and produce some  
> formatted output. The regex is quite simple, and the reason is to  
> create a 'translation' file. I have a huge project where I've used  
> the wordpress-style convention (which in turn is based on the  
> gettext style convention) of translating strings, namely passing  
> them to the __() function (this is all in php). I'm not using  
> gettext, i've just wrapped my own code around that function (which  
> is why i'm using __() instead of _() )
>
> This function at the moment simply returns the input as output  
> (since all the text strings are in english, and I haven't really  
> translated anything yet so my translation files are empty). What I  
> want is to parse all of my code for /__\(['"](.*)['"]\)/ and some  
> variations thereof, and produce a line-separated list of strings  
> that need to be translated. I'd like to make this an automated  
> process, because this is an ongoing project and i'd like to refresh  
> the to-be-translated strings file frequently.
>
> I believe poedit already does something like this, but attempting  
> to get my head around .po and .mo files at this point just gave me  
> a migraine (nb: if someone knows of a good, step-by-step 'for  
> dummies' tutorial for this stuff, I'd appreciate it).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Constantinos Neophytou

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