Re: Regex priorities.

[Anonymous Monk]

How do I fix this?

I read you fix it with "recursive regexes" but I'm not sure that maps well/easy to xml. See

• ** Eternal question of parsing parentheses
• Re^2: parsing XML fragments (xml log files) with... a regex
• recursive algorithm for nested data structures
• balanced parens regexp hangs - solved
• A regexp to parse nested brackets containing strings
• Elegant examples to parse parenthesised strings
• Regexp::Common balanced curlies substitution
• RFC: A walkthrough from JSON ABNF to Regexp::Grammars

I'm the kind that would just use a parser :)

[Steve_BZ]

Hi Anon,

Thanks for this. I did in fact read most of the links you so kindly posted.

I also thought it was a bit like a compiler problem and parsing was a potential solution, but I thought it would take longer. I was quite interested in how you would have parsed it.

Regards

Steve

[Anonymous Monk]

Well personally, if its actual XML I'd use something like Re^3: parse xml and store data in array of hashesh -- as you can see from the path trace, its a depth first search