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		saagarjha on Sept 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is there a regular expression to detect a valid re... It keeps track of state that a regular expression cannot?

unlinkr on Sept 8, 2019 [–]

You don't need to keep track of state to match tokens like XHTML start or end tags.

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