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The best answer on StackOverflow: Using RegEx to parse HTML (stackoverflow.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (14 children)

no, this is one of the worst answers on Stack Overflow

OP had a specific question to capture opening tags. The thing OP asked about can be done with regular expressions. It is true that arbitrarily nested languages like HTML cannot generally be parsed with regular expressions, but that is not what OP asked about.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (7 children)

This is StackOverflow after all. Your question is wrong. Your problem is wrong. You are wrong. I am right. Thread locked. Go read this other post that is totally unrelated to your problem I’ve decided isn’t the problem you’re facing because. I. Am. Right.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Could be worse. At least it's not Microsoft's support forums:

Hey, I see you're having problems with <copy-paste key words from OP>. Try the following and see if it fixes your issue.

Open a command prompt and enter ”sfc /scannow".

I hope this helps!

(Reply marked as solution, thread closed.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have X years experience with {keyword salad}.

Can you confirm {details already in the opening post}?

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