[jriddycuz]

"Let's face it, regular expressions aren't for everyone."

Wait, since when aren't they? I would have thought basic regex skills were a baseline shibboleth of a programmer. I even know several non-technical people that are proficient.

[Zancarius]

Your comment reminded me of Jamie Zawinski's tongue-in-cheek quotation "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." (http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)

Jestful, off-the-wall comments aside, I love regex. It takes away a great deal of the drudgery associated with processing volumes and volumes of text. I can't imagine not having it.

(Aside: Now that you mention it, I can think of a couple people who aren't programmers who use regex pretty frequently because it makes their life a little easier even if it isn't highly advanced, super-dense regex.)