<fx: puts on List Mom hat> How about we don't have this particular fight again on this list, okay? The original question has been answered from both the "completely correct, future proof, Do It Right" crowd and the "pragmatic, works good enough, 80% is better than nothing" crowd. Unless the original poster needs clarification, I don't think there's anything further to discuss here.
thanks, john. -- On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:16 , Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 11-10-26 11:00 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, yeah, yeah. Using the argument that regular expressions can't > > parse HTML because HTML isn't regular is fine. Until you realise that > > Perl's regular expressions, along with those of pretty much every other > > language or library, aren't actually regular either. > > No, using a well-debugged module that takes care of edge cases you don't > even realize exist is a better strategy than rolling your own. > > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > Confusion is the first step of understanding. > > Programming is as much about organization and communication > as it is about coding. > > The secret to great software: Fail early & often. > > Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. > > "Make something worthwhile." -- Dear Hunter > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > (mailto:beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org) > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > (mailto:beginners-h...@perl.org) > http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
