-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/10 09:19 , Brent Yorgey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Michael Litchard wrote: >> a Perl perspective. I let him into what I was doing, and he opined I >> should be using pcre. So now I'm second guessing my choices. Why do >> people choose not to use regex for uri parsing? > > Never believe anything anyone coming from a Perl perspective says > about regular expressions.
If a Perl "expert" tells you that regexps are the way to parse HTML/XML, you can safely conclude they've never actually tried to do it. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzm93MACgkQIn7hlCsL25V6RACgxWMErR6armLoxyFooERkxnJa +I8Aniag5cRSZ9pdwsDeQ/nedMsxana+ =aiuP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
