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If you read that link, it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it. Regular expressions are powerful.
by rasengan 8y ago
If you read that link, it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it. Regular expressions are powerful.
- stareatgoats 8y agoRead the link. Just wondering how you managed to interpret this: > regular expressions is a waste of time when the aforementioned libraries already exist and do a much better job on this. as this: > it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it
- rasengan 8y ago> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php/3577662 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse... It says "can make regex fail when not properly written" etc. There are different circumstances where using a premade parsing library versus using raw regular expressions are going to make sense. The answer is not binary.