-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/10 09:19 , Brent Yorgey wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Michael Litchard wrote:
a Perl perspective. I let him into what I was doing, and he opined I should be using pcre. So now I'm second guessing my choices. Why do people choose not to use regex for uri parsing?
Never believe anything anyone coming from a Perl perspective says about regular expressions.
If a Perl "expert" tells you that regexps are the way to parse HTML/XML, you can safely conclude they've never actually tried to do it. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzm93MACgkQIn7hlCsL25V6RACgxWMErR6armLoxyFooERkxnJa +I8Aniag5cRSZ9pdwsDeQ/nedMsxana+ =aiuP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----