Regular expressions and successive approximation

1 · John Cook · April 7, 2022, 2:05 p.m.
Regular expressions can do a lot of tasks in practice that they cannot do in theory. That’s because a particular application of regular expressions comes with context and with error tolerance. For example, much has been said about how regular expressions cannot parse HTML. This is strictly true, but it says nothing about how well […] The post Regular expressions and successive approximation first appeared on John D. Cook....