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minus-squaretetelestia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoWhat’s wrong with parsing HTML with regex?
minus-squareGuybrushThreepwo0d@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoGo and look it up on stack overflow
minus-squareindepndnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoIn short, it’s the wrong tool for the job. In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it’s probably fine. But as a general statement about someone’s behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.
What’s wrong with parsing HTML with regex?
Go and look it up on stack overflow
In short, it’s the wrong tool for the job.
In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it’s probably fine. But as a general statement about someone’s behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.