When the stackoverflow guy answering takes serious offence when you ask him how to parse HTML with regex

[text] 4414 B Locked. There are di accepting new interactions. You cant parse XJHTML with regex. Because HTML cant be parsed by regex. Regex is nota tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As have answered in HTMLandregex questions. here so many times before the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times butitis not getiing to me. Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love marriage and ritual infanticide. The center cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multiingual Plane he comes. HTMLplusregexp willliquify the nerves of the sentient whilst you observe your psyche withering in the onslaught of horror. Reg8xbased HTML parsers are the cancer that s killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved the trangession of a child ensures regex will consume allliving tissue except for HTML which it cannot as previously prophesied dear lord help us how can anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eterity of dread torture and security holes using regex atool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of Corrupt entities like SGML entities but more corrupt a mere glimpse of the world of regex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmers consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming he comesthepestient sithy regexinfection will devour your HTML parser application and existence for all time like Visual Baic only worse he comes he comes do not fight he comgs his unholy radiaric destrojing all enlightenment HTML tags leaking from your eyeslike liquid pain the song of regular expressipaparsingwill extinguish the voices of mortal man from the sghor can seo it can you see f it i beautiul he f inal. snuf fing of the lies of Man ALL IS L0TALL LOST the pony he 6mes he mmsuem the ichory permeates all MY FAGE MY no NO NOOOO NO stop the angles ke not mI PDNVQ Have you tried using an XML parser instead Moderators Note This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention. share edit follow flag edited Jun 20 at 912 community wiki 7 revs 5 users 36 bobince