Regex has never been my favorite part of writing code. I get that some people geek out on it and bless their hearts. For me, it’s an annoyance that is best left abstracted out of my daily coding experience. Thankfully, I am not alone. There are plenty of sites and programs that generate regular expression sequences for all your pattern matching needs.
Fiction, autobiography, and all the gooey stuff in the middle; by Johanna “Jonnie” Wilder, Layout Technology Thaumaturgist