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    Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/12950329

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I don't think that using regex to basically do regex stuff on strings that happen to also be HTML really counts as parsing HTML

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    I guess it depends on your definition of "parse", but let me tell you it's still very painful to deal with things like attributes appearing in any order inside of a tag so I definitely am not advocating to use regex to "read" (or whatever you want to call it) HTML.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    My regex at work is full of (<[^>]+\s*){0,5} because we don’t care about 90 percent of the attributes. All we care is it’s class=“data I want” and eventually take me to that data.