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• fapjacks 11y ago
  I like how they slip in "Oh, all you have to do is parse HTML with regex" on the last problem.
  • so0k 11y ago
    for the HTML parsing - I was able to pass all the test cases using a stack (push the tags when they open and pop them as they close). I was doing zero validation as the challenge was to take valid html. (I didn't verify that the proper tag was being closed, I knew I'd get out of bound errors due to this, but it should work for valid html) I was using a string builder to eat the input as I had parsed it... but I got an error on submitting my result - it gave "unexpected termination" even when I had replicated the "unexpected termination" error with a custom test case and caught the error - I still got an unexpected termination error when submitting - sigh - maybe it's related to using C# for the challenge... overall not so hard though...
  • dvt 11y ago
    God, I really hope they grasp the stupidity of using regular expressions to parse an irregular language. Implementing a very simple HTML parser takes at least a half-dozen man hours; seeing that question honestly makes Asana seem like amateur hour, and I've had to do some pretty stupid shit in my time. Snapchat, for example, had me solve Sudoku (???).
    • clentaminator 11y ago
      I'm assuming it's a reference to http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
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