[LoSboccacc]

it's sad that today the stack overflow majority shares your mindset and an answer like that would drown in downvotes or killed by moderation.

some people like to act super serious all the time like they're playing a sitcom version of what they think adulthood is in a quest to be the most boring person on earth like if that's the goal of human interaction

[hk__2]

You can be funny and helpful at the same time.

[LoSboccacc]

which is exactly what that so answer was

[unlinkr]

The problem is it is funny and wrong. Apparently it have given a lot of people really confused ideas about what is possible and what is not possible with regular expressions.

If it had been funny and right I would not have a problem with it.

[LoSboccacc]

Stack overflow is not a homework help group, the "Regex are the wrong tool for the job" answer is more correct than the answer with the working Regex.