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Some regex engines (such as .NET) can handle context-free expressions, and will work it out. But that's not the case for most standard engines. And even if they do, you'll end up having a complex hard-to-read expression, whereas using a parsing library could make the job easier. How to find all p...

Because Regular Expressions can do a lot, it is tempting to use them for the simplest operations. But using a regex engine has a cost in memory and processor usage: you need to compile the expression, store the automaton in memory, initialize it and then feed it with the string to run it. And there...

If you want to extract something from a webpage (or any representation/programming language), a regex is the wrong tool for the task. You should instead use your language's libraries to achieve the task. If you want to read HTML, or XML, or JSON, just use the library that parses it properly and ser...