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And the obligitory caveat from the comments: > While arbitrary HTML with only a regex is impossible, it's sometimes appropriate to use them for parsing a limit
by andybak 5y ago
And the obligitory caveat from the comments:
> While arbitrary HTML with only a regex is impossible, it's sometimes appropriate to use them for parsing a limited, known set of HTML.
- hnbad 5y agoThe emphasis here is on "known". The tool is general purpose (i.e. handling unknown HTML) so using regexes would be ill-advised.