Please an explanation

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In the regex course it reads:

Note: Parsing HTML with regular expressions should be avoided, but pattern matching an HTML string with regular expressions is completely fine.

and I went “what?” I haven’t messed with HTML yet but if someone could break it down with some example or a nice explanation I would appreciate it.

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Please post a link to the exercise.

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There’s no exercise. This is from the regex course notes:

Find Characters with Lazy Matching

I just want to understand the meaning of the Note that is highlighted in the course:

Note: Parsing HTML with regular expressions should be avoided, but pattern matching an HTML string with regular expressions is completely fine.

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I think the most important difference is the difference between parsing and matching

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Yes that is true. Usually to parse means to split up a string into component parts. While to match means to just look for a string.

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Many thanks for your help! :grinning:

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