It is true, of course, that it would be very difficult to recreate HTML::Parser in pure perl without using any regexes, though it does not follow from there that it is a good idea to recreate HTML::Parser in pure perl.

It is also true that factors you describe are orthogonal, but only if you restrict the phrase 'use pattern matching' to its most drily correct application. In more informal usage it is common to talk of 'using regexes' as one way of parsing html and 'using the parser' as another, better way. I speak from chastening experience here.

So, to clarify, you are advising the OP to write his own parser in perl using plenty of regexes, and to restrict himself to only the most exact usage of words and operators? Which doesn't seem very perly, but I'm only a lowly bishop and easily muddled :)

In reply to Re: Re^2: Cleanning HTML - New/better module for that - test please! ;-P by thpfft
in thread Cleanning HTML - New/better module for that - test please! ;-P by gmpassos

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