Use regex to parse HTML.

Why is that bad advice?

@TerriToniAX only Chuck Norris is allowed to do that.

@2nd2NULL *binging "Chuck Norris"* He's an actor? Is he a dev also?

He is the best dev of all times...also 2nd best...and 3rd...

@2nd2NULL (H)aha, I get it. http://neobytesolutions.com/chuck-n...

@2nd2NULL Regex can be extremely powerful if you use it right, but not as powerful as Chuck Norris though :)

@TerriToniAX you should never use regex to parse HTML as HTML can not be reliably parsed in that way. https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

@watzon OK, there were some good answers :)

Best approaches are either XPath or a Selector query library like jQuery. There probably is a version for your language which works like jQuery but its takes any html string as an input. :)

Parse SVG with regex

@TerriToniAX Chuck Norris is a racist extremist bag of dicks who is against teaching science in schools, against doctors, pro tobacco industry, against lgbt rights, and completely unworthy of being a positive meme.

@bittersweet I don't know him, but in case what you say about him is true, then he could be like Trump's bastard brother or something.

Fuck Chuck Norris, I've done this, took me two days to figure shit out but the end result was beautiful.

Using regex to parse html would take forever. Unless you focused on tag open and close brackets. /<*/>*///<*/> but even than you'd have over lapping html pulling in 10 times what you need. Ya I don't know regex is pattern searching not a parse tech.

@skprog pretty much. Regex comes in very handy when building a parser, but it isn’t a parser itself. I have written several parsers for fun over the past month and I highly recommend the exercise

Surprised you didn't link to this stackoverflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454