use regexp to search function calls in code

Question

i try to make .mo files from my sources in php by finding "t()" function calls, i know that one better way is using regex functions like preg_match or something, but i'm not the better creating regular expresions, any help?

(and sorry for my english...)

Answer 1

No, preg_match is not better. When you want to parse PHP code, use the tokenizer. It is far more reliable.

Answer 2

Assuming that you have no function calls within the t() call, the simplest way to match them is

t\([^)]*?\)