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Agreed. I cringed when I read that line. Parsers can do things that regular expressions can't (paren matching, for example). Yet I've seen people try using regu
by brianwillis 16y ago
Agreed. I cringed when I read that line. Parsers can do things that regular expressions can't (paren matching, for example). Yet I've seen people try using regular expressions when a parser would be a better choice.
There seems to be this emerging pattern in my career where I stumble across all the people in the world who have decided to try and validate HTML using regular expressions.
- gjm11 16y ago> try and validate HTML using regular expressions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
- brianwillis 16y agoOK. I take it back. Any problems that I have ever had in my life have now been put into perspective. That poor bastard.