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Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I guess it depends on your definition of "parse", but let me tell you it's still very painful to deal with things like attributes appearing in any order inside of a tag so I definitely am not advocating to use regex to "read" (or whatever you want to call it) HTML.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My regex at work is full of (<[^>]+\s*){0,5} because we don’t care about 90 percent of the attributes. All we care is it’s class=“data I want” and eventually take me to that data.