HTML and Regexp
I was browsing through a few “Daily WTF”, and came across this one, which straight away made me think of this hilarious SO response about the evil of parsing HTML with Regexp. Here is a short excerpt that doesn’t even do justice to the whole thing:
Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide.
Incidentally, probably the most creative use of utf-8 I have seen so far…
