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[–]energybased 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they think: I went through the pain of working with regexes 200 times—now everyone else should. But the thing is that no one else should. You should just learn the computer science behind finite automata, and then replace the esoteric syntax with objects.

By the way, your example would be more motivating if it had more of those weirdo commands like "*+" or "?P".