On 11-10-26 11:00 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Using the argument that regular expressions can't parse HTML because HTML isn't regular is fine. Until you realise that Perl's regular expressions, along with those of pretty much every other language or library, aren't actually regular either.
No, using a well-debugged module that takes care of edge cases you don't even realize exist is a better strategy than rolling your own.
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