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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. :)

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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).

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