alt Hacker NewsIf you're talking about tokenizers, then you're no longer parsing HTML with a regex. You're tokenizing it with a regex and processing it with an actual parser.
If you're talking about tokenizers, then you're no longer parsing HTML with a regex. You're tokenizing it with a regex and processing it with an actual parser.
If you are talking about detecting tags, you (and the person asking that SO question) is talking about tokenization, and everybody (like the one making that famous answer) bringing parsing into the discussion is just being an asshole.