13 years ago my god. I wonder what Jon Skeet is doing these days.
I remember when he passed me in the reputation ranking back in the early days and thinking that I needed to be a little bit more active on the site to catch him lol.
That was a great read. Thanks!
This is the way
What's wrong with parsing HTML with regex?
Go and look it up on stack overflow
In short, it's the wrong tool for the job.
In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it's probably fine. But as a general statement about someone's behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.
I'm down with scraping, but "parses HTML with regex" has got me fucked up.
Relevant SO post. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags#1732454
13 years ago my god. I wonder what Jon Skeet is doing these days.
I remember when he passed me in the reputation ranking back in the early days and thinking that I needed to be a little bit more active on the site to catch him lol.
That was a great read. Thanks!
This is the way
What's wrong with parsing HTML with regex?
Go and look it up on stack overflow
In short, it's the wrong tool for the job.
In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it's probably fine. But as a general statement about someone's behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.