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Re:The power of back references and Python by Acorn on Monday May 16, 2011 @01:14PM (#2553293)
Do not use regular expressions for parsing HTML.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...

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Re:The power of back references and Python by puttsmcfadden on Monday May 16, 2011 @03:40PM (#2553867)
I agree with your point about using backreferences as an html parser. I think the point of the post is regular expressions and back reference usage.
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