"It's considered good form to demand that regular expressions be considered verboten, totally off limits for processing HTML, but I think that's just as wrongheaded as demanding every trivial HTML processing task be handled by a full-blown parsing engine."
The real enemy isn't regular expressions (or, for that matter, goto), but ignorance. The only crime being perpetrated is not knowing what the alternatives are.
So, while I may attempt to parse HTML using regular expressions in certain situations, I go in knowing that it's generally a bad idea.
– https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/