[rockwotj]

To quote the famous:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

Source: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

[jamesgt]

We get recognition and/or money for solving problems ;)

Although you and almost everybody else was pointing out regex as a possible problem or at least as an unnecessary complexity. I plan to handle this: https://github.com/jrgql/jrgql.github.io/issues/2