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justinhj on July 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML

Exactly. Gnu's Flex lets the user define regex's for each state of the parser... http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Patterns.html#Patterns

LukeShu on July 8, 2011 [–]

Flex is used by the GNU System, but it is not GNU. It is incorrect to call it "Gnu's Flex". http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/

justinhj on July 9, 2011 | [–]

You're quite right, thanks

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