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Re: Help with regex [message #184955 is a reply to message #184952]

Wed, 19 February 2014 15:30

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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knal wrote:
^^^^
Please fix.

> Hi PointedEars,

Hello. This is a one-to-many (or many-to-many) communications medium.
Therefore, addressing only one person is impolite towards the other
potential readers.

> With regular HTML i meant basic HTML, submitted with basic
> WYSIWYG-features like links, basic text styles (b, i, u, etc.), images,
> some divs, etc. I understand this wasn't clear, sorry for that.

But even such “basic HTML” is not a regular language because many element
types can be part of their own content.

> Regarding the RTFM: I've read on the regex, and also understood it's not
> intended for what I want to use it for.

That depends on *how* you use it. Because HTML is not a regular language,
unless you would accept only a subset of HTML that is regular, a single
application of a single regular expression will not suffice (even if that
expression is not a regular one in the computer-science sense of the term).

> I've come here for help here because I was unable to find a similar
> situation which could aid me to my solution nor was i able to find any
> other method I could use.

In general, you are looking for a markup parser (which is an implementation
of a push-down automaton, a PDA). Either write one yourself (you *can* use
regular expressions there) or use those that are available (Christoph has
pointed out a reasonable one).

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		Help with regex By: knal on Wed, 19 February 2014 09:18
		Re: Help with regex By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 19 February 2014 14:20
		Re: Help with regex By: knal on Wed, 19 February 2014 14:45
		Re: Help with regex By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 19 February 2014 15:11
		Re: Help with regex By: knal on Wed, 19 February 2014 15:17
		Re: Help with regex By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 19 February 2014 15:37
		Re: Help with regex By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 19 February 2014 20:32
		Re: Help with regex By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 19 February 2014 21:28
		Re: Help with regex By: Christoph Michael Bec on Thu, 20 February 2014 21:43
		Re: Help with regex By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 21 February 2014 01:25
		Re: Help with regex By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sun, 23 February 2014 16:57
		Re: Help with regex By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 19 February 2014 18:48
		Re: Help with regex By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 20 February 2014 06:29
		Re: Help with regex By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 19 February 2014 15:30
		Re: Help with regex By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 19 February 2014 17:42
		Re: Help with regex By: Scott Johnson on Wed, 19 February 2014 23:38

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