On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 21:08:00 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Ian Jackson: > > I asked codesearch about > > while.*\<\> > > and got 10780 results. > > I had a similar thought but tried a slightly more complex pattern: > > (while\s*|for(each)?\s*(my)?\s*\$.*)\(.*<>\s*\) > > The pattern also tries to cover "for" and "foreach" while also being > more strict to prune false positives (C++ templates, Pascal and SQL trip > naive searches for "<>"). > > This variant still puts us in the 3000 - 4000 results, which (while > being less than half of the original number) is far more than is likely > to be resolved manually in a reasonable time frame.
Oh, and you both are missing <ARGV>. XD Thanks, Guillem
