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How many problems would novice have if he decides to parse HTML with regexes in Perl?
by adobriyan 15y ago
How many problems would novice have if he decides to parse HTML with regexes in Perl?
- praptak 15y agoWhich one is this: a serious expression of concern or some kind of a lightbulb joke?
- telemachos 15y agoPretty sure it's a reference to this famous[1] joke: >> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. [1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
- gloob 15y agoThe correct response to that saying is to point out that regular expressions are significantly simpler than general-purpose, Turing-complete programming languages.