rejjjex.py

"""
Examples:

    update_option( "foobar" )
    update_option( 'your_mom_lol' )
    update_option("another_func")
    update_option('some_long_name')

Regex:

    update_option\(\s*('|")(.*)('|")\s*\)

"""

import fnmatch
import os
import re

# Recursively walk the plugins folder and build a lits of PHP files
file_list = []
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('wp_plugins'):
  for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, '*.php'):
    file_list.append(os.path.join(root, filename))

# Search each file for matching regex pattern
regex = re.compile('update_option\(\s*\'|"(.*)\'|"')

for filename in file_list:
    with open(filename) as fobj:
        output = re.search(regex, fobj.read())
        if output:
            print filename
            print output.group()
            print "=============================="