I'm reminded of: "You have a problem, and you decide to use a regexp to solve it. Now you have two problems" Although of course I'm just kidding and I'm sure

I'm reminded of: "You have a problem, and you decide to use a regexp to solve it. Now you have two problems" Although of course I'm just kidding and I'm sure that a good regexp probably is the right solution for what they're doing in that instance: they have a lot of bright people.