[Catalyst] Alien::Dojo uses regexes to parse HTML, so what?

[Daniel McBrearty]

Why not write your own damn parser and handle the whole problem on a
character-by-character basis if you want. All you have to do is debug it and
make it work right.

or you could just do what software engineers have been advocating for
decades and make use of an existing *reusable library* that is already out
there. That way you help yourself, by taking advantage of debugging that has
already been done.



On 5/29/06, phaylon <phaylon at dunkelheit.at> wrote:
>
> Dominique Quatravaux said:
>
> > I rest my case, unless someone can provide compelling reasons for
> > avoiding regexes *in general* for this task.
>
> mst gave only one to demonstrate the whole problem. It's like a big,
> lightsucking black hole. First it's just an alt attribute. Next it's <a vs
> <A, next it's " vs. ', next it's one link versus multiple.
>
> Asking the dojo site maintainer for a canonical link would be aeons easier
> and more future-proof. If the dojo guys change something your regular
> expression doesn't expect (which is a pretty broad field of
> possibilities), all your users have to update to get the new regex.
>
>
> p
>
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