Regular Expression help

[John Bokma]

Edward Elliott <nobody at 127.0.0.1> wrote:

> johnzenger at gmail.com wrote:
>> If you are parsing HTML, it may make more sense to use a package
>> designed especially for that purpose, like Beautiful Soup.
> 
> I don't know Beautiful Soup, but one advantage regexes have over some
> parsers is handling malformed html.  Omitted closing tags can wreak
> havoc. Regexes can also help if you only want elements
> preceded/followed by a certain sibling or cousin in the parse tree. 
> It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish.  In general
> though, yes parsers are better suited to extracting from markup.

A parser can be written in such a way that it doesn't give up on malformed 
HTML. Probably less hard then coming up with regexes that handle HTML 
that's well-formed. (and that coming from a Perl programmer ;-) )

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