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The power of back references and Python

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Post by puttsmcfadden » Mon, May 16, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

The power of back references and Python
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Re: The power of back references and Python

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Post by Acorn » Mon, May 16, 2011, 5:14 PM UTC

Do not use regular expressions for parsing HTML.

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

Re: The power of back references and Python

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Post by puttsmcfadden » Mon, May 16, 2011, 7:40 PM UTC

Acorn wrote: post #2

Do not use regular expressions for parsing HTML. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...

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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