Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Wed Nov 25 18:53:26 EST 2015
Grobu <snailcoder at retrosite.invalid>:
> Sorry, I wasn't aware of regex being on the dark side :-)
No, regular expressions are great for many purposes. Parsing
context-free syntax isn't one of them.
See:
<URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy#The_hierarchy>
Most modern programming languages including HTML are context-free. Their
structure is too rich for regular expressions to capture.
Regular expressions can handle any regular language just fine. They are
commonly used to define the lexical tokens of a language.
Marko
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