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What is parsing?

Asked 2009-11-24T09:02:28.347
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Parsing is something I come across a lot in development, but as a junior it is one of those things I assume I will get the hang of at some point, when it is needed. In my current project I've been told to find and use an HTML parser for a certain function, I have found a couple on the web.

But what does an HTML parser actually do? And what does it mean to parse an object?

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Parsing is taking a set of data and extracting the meaningful information from it. With HTML parsing, you're looking to read some html and return a structured set of tags and text

answered 2009-11-24T09:04:59.917

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