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    Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
    submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    That's certainly one level of parsing, and sometimes alk you need, but as the article you posted says, it more usually refers to generating a parse tree. To do that in a natural language isn't happening with a regex.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    Thanks for all the explaining. I always wondered why you can't parse HTML since I first saw the Stack Overflow post, when you can take any HTML code you find and write an expression to work against said set of data.

    I never understood the word parse to mean understanding and building a structure based on any input.