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Re:Parsing HTML Using Regular Expressions by scarface74 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:16PM (#14683657)
Is there ever a good reason to use regex to do a web scraper instead of using a proper prebuilt parser and walking the DOM?
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Re:Parsing HTML Using Regular Expressions by bryanrasmussen on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:09PM (#14684607)
regex is your hammer and you just by chance happen to have a really nail shaped task to do?
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Re:Parsing HTML Using Regular Expressions by mercer on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:21AM (#14685797)
Performance, perhaps?
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