Re: Regular expression to find <tr> tags in 2nd level HTML tables

From: Shannon Jacobs (shanen_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 01/11/04 

Date: 11 Jan 2004 09:07:41 -0800

"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<mW2Mb.4024$et1.1012@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>...
> Shannon Jacobs wrote:
> > [...] or a concrete example of the most obvious
> > problem with the regex.
>
> Which parts of the negative examples in FAQ "How do I remove HTML from a
> string?" do you have problem with when trying to adapt them to your concrete
> "<tr>" problem?
>
> jue

Thank you for the reference to
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq9.html. Unfortunately, the
category of structural problem that I encountered is not covered
there, and my source HTML does not include any of the problems covered
in the "tricky cases". If the FAQ included any examples of the use of
HTML::FormatText, or a more concrete reference, it might have been
more helpful.

As it stands, I've decided to return to Excel. Ugly and inelegant (and
typical of Microsoft), but useful and adequate.

With regards to the other recent comments in this thread, I will note:

1. Just because a particular NNTP server does not carry a particular
newsgroup, that does not mean that the newsgroup in question does not
exist.

2. With regards to the unhelpful advice to stop using Perl, I already
have (except for infrequent maintenance work on a few CGI/Perl systems
I wrote some years ago). As noted several times earlier, I am
currently working from a JavaScript perspective, but sought out Perl
people because of the compatibility of the regex implementations and
because of old memories of their expertise (though not found this time
around).

3. I used the term "elitist" in the sense of high technical expertise.
Perhaps I should have tried the XSL community. Recently all I have
seen around Perl are the laziness, impatience, and hubris, but without
the justification of results.

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