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Re: Can RegExp() do this??

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Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> You can use String.prototype.replace() passing a reference to a RegExp
>> instance with alternation and global flag set while giving precedence to
>> the alternatives that match substrings that you wish to ignore, and a
>> reference to a Function instance for replacer function.  Then return from 
>> that function the match for them, and the highlighted match for the rest.
>                    ^^^^^                               ^^^^^
>> That said, at your current position in the learning curve you should not
>> attempt to parse provably non-regular languages like HTML using regular
>             ^^^^^
> 
> The OP doesn't seem to want parsing the HTML document here.

For what they want they need to be able to tell apart matches within 
“script” elements and “meta-element islands” (as they call it; the resulting 
markup is probably invalid) from the other matches that they are interested 
in.  That means parsing HTML (I did not say they would need to parse the 
entire document).  Are you confusing parsing with rendering?

HTH

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Can RegExp() do this?? dean@hannotte.com - 2015-02-08 05:57 -0800
  Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-08 15:17 +0100
    Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-02-09 15:56 -0200
      Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-10 17:04 +0100

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