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

[Dominique Quatravaux]

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phaylon wrote:

> Dominique Quatravaux said:
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>> 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.

No it's not. We are not trying to address the problem of parsing HTML
in general, we are trying to address the problem of parsing *one
single page*. Since I apparently have to be that explicit to make my
point, consider

  my ($url) = qr{<a ^>+
href="(http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release[^"]+)"}sx

or even

  my ($url) = qr{href="http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release[^"]+)"}sx

and pray tell me what's wrong with those. HTML is a *text* language,
for chrissake, it was designed *purposefully* so that I am able to do
that sort of thing.


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Dominique QUATRAVAUX                           Ingénieur senior
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