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by tolos 4887 days ago
I was really expecting an article about parsing HTML when he said right at the beginning:

>> You cannot parse HTML with regular expressions, because HTML isn’t regular. Use an XML parser instead.

> This statement - in the context of the question - is somewhere between very misleading and outright wrong.

But nope, after disappointment and going back to the beginning, he says he's not talking about HTML:

> What I’ll try to demonstrate in this article is how powerful modern regular expressions really are.

And not even a warning about how easy it is to make really terrible regex.