One of the most awesome shitposts on Stack Overflow got edited. Why...

There is an actual tutorial on parsing html with regex

What the hell, I thought they were just keeping it for archive purposes!

You shouldn't edit an answer after 5+ years imho.

Sauce?

It even had a notice that it was just the way it was supposed to be and users should refrain from commenting it :/

This is horrifying but somehow beautiful.

WHY 😣

Looks like it's fine

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Phew, so glad I have a screenshot of it lying around...

@Pizza Phew. Good.

"Moderator's 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."

<3

Funny thing is, in this form it makes no good point whatsoever. You can't really "parse" any language with regex alone. Sure you can make sure certain things match, and that you can do when parsing HTML too, but you're not going to write a regular expression to parse a language. Hell, that shit can't even parse an email correctly without a 400 character expression.