I used to work at a Perl shop. The language makes it so easy to use regexes that you risk abusing them, but nevertheless that exposure has helped me become quit

I used to work at a Perl shop. The language makes it so easy to use regexes that you risk abusing them, but nevertheless that exposure has helped me become quite proficient with regexes. I use Perl one liners whenever I need to deal with text data on the command line, so that keeps me exposed to regexes.