Chas. Owens <chas.owens <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 20:02, Canol Gökel <canol <at> canol.info> wrote:
> Can't be done*. You need a parser. snip It can be done. snip > Learn to write a parser instead. This is like asking how to build a > bridge for people out of toothpicks. It can be done (but I wouldn't > walk on it), but it is a waste of your time. snip I don't want to parse a language, I want to match just "a tag". Do you thing, for example, forum scripts do language parsing for their bbcode? snip > And yet you are asking a Perl list. Perhaps you would be better > served by asking this question on a list for whatever language you are > using? Perl's regexes are not standard. They contain many extensions > that make this sort of thing easier, but since you are using some > mystery language for this mystery project we cannot help you. > snip I could ask this question to any language list which has regular expressions as a feature. I guess parsing bbcode can be done with almost any programming language out there and I think the logic should not be that complicated which requires modules/extensions etc. right? Since Perl is the most powerful language with RegExps I decided to ask this in this list. Also, should I ask what "variables" are to Pascal list just because I use Pascal? snip > * Not 100% true, but the amount of effort you will put into trying to > get regex that matches even 80% of valid, expected HTML dwarfs the > amount of time it takes to write a parser. Given the fact that high > quality parsers exist already, there is no reason to waste your time. > Who said that I want to parse the whole HTML standard? I just want to match 1 single HTML tag with no attributes or something. Just <p></p> and that's all. Please before answering a post with judgments inside, read it carefully and try to understand what this person is asking. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
