Yeah, sometimes it just makes sense to use regex, especially when looking for patterns in text. It's easier to say "look for \([0-9]{3}\) [0-9]{3}\-?[0-9]{4}" than:
look for a ( character, if you find one, check that
the next character matches any of 0, 1, 2, ...
the next character matches any of 0, 1, 2, ...
the next character matches any of 0, 1, 2, ...
the next character is a ) character...
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Yeah, sometimes it just makes sense to use regex, especially when looking for patterns in text. It's easier to say "look for
\([0-9]{3}\) [0-9]{3}\-?[0-9]{4}" than:(character, if you find one, check that0,1,2, ...0,1,2, ...0,1,2, ...)character...