Mark Mielke wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:27:28AM +1000, King, Jason G wrote:
Alternatively, just use HTML::Parser or HTML::TokeParser and you can
handle arbitrarily complex body tags without having to worry about what
your input is.
I second this suggestion. It is highly doubtful that a single REGEXP that
takes up less than 80 characters of text is able to properly parse even
limited HTML. Why re-invent the wheel when somebody else has already done
all the hard work, far better, and well researched, than you (the original
poster, and the person who followed up with a regexp) have?
For general cases, I would probably agree. For limited, well-known or
simple cases - I'd use a RE. I think the original example of this thread
fell into the later (unless I mis-read it). :)
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