What's the best way to write this regular expression?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Tue Mar 6 20:26:11 EST 2012
In article
<12783654.1174.1331073814011.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at yner4>,
John Salerno <johnjsal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I sort of have to work with what the website gives me (as you'll see below),
> but today I encountered an exception to my RE. Let me just give all the
> specific information first. The point of my script is to go to the specified
> URL and extract song information from it.
Rule #1: Don't try to parse XML, HTML, or any other kind of ML with
regular expressions.
Rule #2: Use a dedicated ML parser. I like lxml (http://lxml.de/).
There's other possibilities.
Rule #3: If in doubt, see rule #1.
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