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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Always start SO questions with X/Y problem pre-empting

These people are everywhere and will stop at nothing to make you click on one of these

https://xyproblem.info/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444353 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

They are trying to derail your question, which was already a generalized version of what your actual question was. And of course, you would need to explain everything you generalized out of your question (which would probably all get deleted by someone editing your question and removing all the irrelevant facts) by which point your question becomes so complicated nobody can answer it, even though they could have answered the generalized version.

My advice, just use chatgpt or mistral, 99% you will get a better answer than stackoverflow. And you will get this actionnable answer IMMEDIATELY !