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It's a great tool for solving certain types of problems that would be very hard to solve otherwise. I've seen some very arcane solutions for problems that could have been solved very simply with regex - because the author of the code didn't know how to use regex. Almost everyone learns about regex later than they should - I know I did.
Any non-trivial regex should be clearly commented, though. That's often missing.
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It's a great tool for solving certain types of problems that would be very hard to solve otherwise. I've seen some very arcane solutions for problems that could have been solved very simply with regex - because the author of the code didn't know how to use regex. Almost everyone learns about regex later than they should - I know I did.
Any non-trivial regex should be clearly commented, though. That's often missing.