alt Hacker NewsYou can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML.
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rokkamokka • yesterday at 3:21 PM
You can parse a subset of it though, like if you're in control of the html yourself and avoid certain structures
zarzavat • yesterday at 3:32 PM
Parsing HTML with a regex is never a good option, but it's sometimes the only option.
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tyho • yesterday at 4:24 PM
You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length. Every finite language is regular, hence can be parsed with regex's.
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matheusmoreira • yesterday at 3:40 PM
Tony the pony, he comes.
prmoustache • yesterday at 4:34 PM
I do not count substitution as "parsing"
Some commenters are missing that this is a reference to https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454.