File I/O
MonkeeSage
MonkeeSage at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 03:12:56 EDT 2006
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Good to know that you can get drunk under any circumstances.
+(++)1 heh!
> I have seen a bazillion bad xml/html parsing-hacks using regexes and the
> like, which stopped working after somehow the xml came all in one line, or
> some other implicit assumption about its layout failed to be met.
Seriously, I fully agree with you. To manipulate X/HT/ML data reliably
you need to use a parser. And usually the parser API is much cleaner
and easier to work with than trying to cobble together regexps anyhow!
Regards,
Jordan
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