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Originally Posted by Jellby
When learning regex you just have to take into account that there are many dialects, and sometimes you need to adapt the recipes from one dialect to another.
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As is true of all HTML, XHTML and CSS, too! I usually compare trying to read someone else's HTML & CSS to knowing one dialect of Chinese and trying to read another...it's all much of a thing, isn't it? Like Regex...once you know how to say it in PCRE, you can say it somewhere else, it's just getting the "accents" right. ;-)
I always cringe when I get an email from someone who wants us to "fix their HTML," (or their INDD, etc.), usually for $5-$25 (ha!). I tell them, it's frankly faster and cheaper for us to do it from scratch, at least, most of the time. Trying to troubleshoot someone else's HTML, CSS, etc., takes more time than doing it over.
Hitch