Re^4: simple regex help

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<li><span class="title">Title</span><ul><li>one</ul> MATCH HERE </li> 
+this shouldn't match
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outputs

<ul><li>one</ul> MATCH HERE </li> this shouldn't match
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instead of the expected

<ul><li>one</ul> MATCH HERE
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Re^5: simple regex help by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 18, 2007 at 17:59 UTC
~~And that, class, is why all sane people use a properly tested HTML parser and don't try to roll their own with regexen . . .~~ Update: Oh he is. Never mind me . . . %) Perhaps this is why sane people avoid having to parse HTML if they can avoid it. :)	[reply]
Re^6: simple regex help by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 18, 2007 at 19:48 UTC
According to Wikipedia, In computer science and linguistics, parsing (more formally syntax analysis) is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar. While using a tokenizer is a step in the right direction, he did roll his own parser (the `while` loop).	[reply] [d/l]