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Monday September 01, 2003
05:27 AM
Oneupmanship
I get a guilty pleasure out of conversations that go like this:
Me: Don't use regexes to parse HTML, use HTML::Parser instead.
Him: But how do you think HTML::Parser parses HTML then?
Me: Actually it uses this C code here (pointing) and that looks to me like a state machine that implements an LR parser. Not regular expressions.
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Oneupmanship (Score:5, Interesting)
A state machine can only parse as well as a regular expression (and vice versa). But you knew that, right?
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Re:Oneupmanship (Score:2)
But I know that HTML::Parser doesnt' use regular expressions
Re:Oneupmanship (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oneupmanship (Score:2)
broken html parsing (Score:3, Interesting)
Arrgh.
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Re:broken html parsing (Score:2)
Three, if you count C# :-)
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Re:broken html parsing (Score:1)
JWZ is right, except when he isn't. I hope being a club owner is everything he dreamed of.