Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> "Christian Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > I found that writing my own parser to fit my specific need was far
> > and away the fastest thing I could do. It really depends upon your
> > specific application. HTML::Parser is nice if you want to see the
> > structure of the document your parsing but is just too slow to use
> > for wresting particular tags from a document...
>
> True. This was the main reason I started work on a new XS based
> HTML::Parser a week ago. It should make much of the performance
> argument go away. Still, most of the HTML that I have ever needed to
> parse or manipulate is regular enough to make perl REs good enough.
Do you have any numbers on speed?
Ta,
Dave
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