From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T05:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs

James Gray wrote:
> Am I getting close yet?  No, the quotes are all wrong.  That would
> fail to match an extremely common link like:
> 
> If you want to capture the name of the link too, this gets *much* worse!

I see what you're getting at: If you're trying to do 
generally-applicable parsing, I suppose you're headed for a world of 
hurt.  But all I've ever done is page- or site-specific scraping, and 
never really considered it a big deal.  A few regexps here, a few .scans 
there, and you're done...

Pistos

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