This sounds like an article I would have written in college. In my experience, if you're using regex often enough to remember how to write patterns that are suf

This sounds like an article I would have written in college. In my experience, if you're using regex often enough to remember how to write patterns that are sufficiently complex to actually be useful beyond short 'pre-processing' snippets, you're overusing regex. (Or alternatively, your memory is significantly better and/or less divided than mine.)