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Re: A few random questions from Learning Perl 3

by mowgli (Friar)
on Jan 06, 2003 at 19:55 UTC ( [id://224722]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to A few random questions from Learning Perl 3

With regard to your second question, no matter what anyone else might say, using regular expressions to solve a given problem is never a bad thing, and surely nothing one should be ashamed of, either; regular expressions are just another tool that perl gives you to help you solve your problems, and there is nothing wrong with using it, even when other solutions are available - There Is More Than One Way To Do It.

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Re: Re: A few random questions from Learning Perl 3
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 07, 2003 at 06:53 UTC
    Geeee! at last I read all the way down to the bottom until I saw it. Indeed, TIMTOWTDI is the answer to the regex question. Shame on some of you other folk, who while accumulating perl wisdom seem to have forgotten the first lesson.
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      There is more than one way to do it right, but there are lots of ways to do it wrong.

      Parsing HTML with regexes falls into the latter category.

      Using a regex can be one of the right ways to do it if you are parsing a pseudo-HTML format which is not allowed to have nesting beyond a very shallow depth in the portions you actually want to parse.

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