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Re: Help with regex

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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).
 
> [Top post]

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PointedEarsa

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Help with regex knal <knalpiap@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 01:18 -0800
  Re: Help with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-19 15:20 +0100
    Re: Help with regex knal <knalpiap@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 06:45 -0800
      Re: Help with regex Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-19 16:11 +0100
        Re: Help with regex knal <knalpiap@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 07:17 -0800
          Re: Help with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-19 16:37 +0100
            Re: Help with regex Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-19 21:32 +0100
              Re: Help with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-19 22:28 +0100
                Re: Help with regex Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-20 22:43 +0100
                Re: Help with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-21 02:25 +0100
                Re: Help with regex Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-23 17:57 +0100
          Re: Help with regex Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-19 13:48 -0500
          Re: Help with regex "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2014-02-20 00:29 -0600
      Re: Help with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-19 16:30 +0100
    Re: Help with regex The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-19 17:42 +0000
      Re: Help with regex Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2014-02-19 15:38 -0800

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