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tried it ... q on re's (Score:1)

by goon (3162) on 2004.02.15 0:03 (#28466) Homepage Journal

thanks for the sample code. tried it. worked on cygwin (beats activestate and I dont have a *nix box online) after a bit of buggerising around with CPAN modules.

One question though - why is it better to use regex's to extract data rather than to use a html parser?

I ask this as I'm currently using re's to extract data from google and writing and debugging regex's takes up the most time.

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- Re:tried it ... q on re's (Score:2)
  
  by petdance (2468)
  
  It's better in this case because I wanted a quick (5 minutes, remember) and dirty solution to my problem.
  If you're extracting data from Google, you may want to look at the link functions in WWW::Mechanize, anyway. It does a lot of the parsing for you.
  
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