>It's not just you. As you say this can only truly be used by people you understand regular expressions; and they would most likely prefer not to use this stuff

>It's not just you. As you say this can only truly be used by people you understand regular expressions; and they would most likely prefer not to use this stuff. I know regex and I hate writing it. It's unreadable and I need to spend time remembering/googling/checking the exact syntax. And, of course, the syntax differs from implementation to implementation in subtle but important ways (ie: need to double escape in python, etc.).