Comments on: How to return tag contents with regular expressions http://www.placona.co.uk/179/regular-expressions/how-to-return-tag-contents-with-regular-expressions/ ColdFusion, Ruby and General Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matthew Leskohttp://www.placona.co.uk/179/regular-expressions/how-to-return-tag-contents-with-regular-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Matthew Lesko Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-308 I think you'd be better served solving this example with an XML Parser and XPath. While I agree regular expressions are a very powerful way to solve a number of different problems, they're also a very easy way to introduce bugs. I think you’d be better served solving this example with an XML Parser and XPath. While I agree regular expressions are a very powerful way to solve a number of different problems, they’re also a very easy way to introduce bugs.

]]> By: Marcos Placonahttp://www.placona.co.uk/179/regular-expressions/how-to-return-tag-contents-with-regular-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Marcos Placona Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000 #comment-307 Totally right Matthew, but I just used XML to illustrate how easy it would be. In fact, I'd rather use XPath (which could also be using regular expressions) for it as you mentioned. I would normally use the regular expression approach when dealing with HTML. I used this a lot when developing some of my projects here as well. See http://cfaday.placona.co.uk/ for example. It uses this kind of regular expressions to get the various bits and pieces from Adobe's documentation. Totally right Matthew, but I just used XML to illustrate how easy it would be. In fact, I’d rather use XPath (which could also be using regular expressions) for it as you mentioned.

I would normally use the regular expression approach when dealing with HTML.

I used this a lot when developing some of my projects here as well.

See http://cfaday.placona.co.uk/ for example. It uses this kind of regular expressions to get the various bits and pieces from Adobe’s documentation.

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