[thelist] Regex

[Lindsay Evans]

> It's worth noting that the Perl Cookbook (Recipe 20.6) cites the regexp
> below as invalid for all but the most simple HTML.  If you're using Perl,
> try using a package like HTML::Parser.  Otherwise, you're going to have a
> very hard time constructing a regexp that does this.

Interesting.

Does it happen to metion any specific cases where it doesn't work?
I've used this quite a bit on some rather complex html (including xhtml
tags, etc.), and it worked fine.

Though I'd imagine if you had invalid html to start with (ie. <img
src="arrow.gif" ... alt=" -> ">) that it would break.

Just curious.

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