From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 21:26:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49AA1065675 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C310A8FC1B for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id 0E19816B50C; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:26:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.83]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 885D316B4E9; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:23:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:23:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Grant Peel In-Reply-To: <512055A7FA6F44DCB287AB729AED7351@GRANT> Message-ID: <20090605162256.Q2458@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <512055A7FA6F44DCB287AB729AED7351@GRANT> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RegEx X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:26:33 -0000 On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of a current mailing list that discusses regular > expressions? No. Well I don't anyway. > I have Googled a number of time, but everything I find is old. Sometimes the old stuff is best. If you had googled very much you should have encounter a statement of this fact: regexes are not suitable for parsing HTML. (Yes, everyone does it for simple one-liner operations when they have complete control of the source and know what is in it. But for production code, regexes won't do, and there should be pages and pages of explanations for why it won't.) Install the p5-HTML-Parser port in the www ports. Address further questions to an appropriate perl forum. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266