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Worst dev advice you've been given?
Week 66 Group Rant
TheItalianGuy
7y

"Use a regex to parse that HTML file"

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  • 3
    7y
    Rather use BeautifulSoup?
  • 8
    7y
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions...
  • 2
    7y
    Ok if you're looking for one clear defined thing and you know what it is, no-go for general purpose parsing.
  • 2
    7y
    @kabhishek Yeah.. try telling that to my professor.. he's the guy that came up with this brilliant idea in the first place xD
  • 1
    7y
    I did this for an interview. It was challenging especially since I didn't know what a state machine was at the time. Can't see any practical reason for this however
  • 0
    7y
    @7400 "The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content"
  • 1
    7y
    if(randomDude.says().Contains("regex"))
    me.say("YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER");

    hate them people always jumping to regex when they need to parse something IT'S FUCKING SLOOOOOW YOU DONKEY
  • 0
    7y
    @linuxxxxxx it may be slow but god damn it’s powerful. And once you learn it you can make something pretty fast as well
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