> if you know it, you know it everywhere. What you don't know is this. Right, one language might have anythingBut(" ").endofline() and the next language might

> if you know it, you know it everywhere. What you don't know is this. Right, one language might have anythingBut(" ").endofline() and the next language might have a different . operator like anythingBut(" ")->endofline() or it might even require nesting calls. None of these things are a significant hurdle and if we standardize the names (endofline, anythingBut, ...) then you can make the same argument. It's a chicken and egg argument: just use regex because that works everywhere -> it's not universally implemented -> it won't work everywhere. And aside from that, I have a similar experience to the sibling comment: when using some command line tool that I forgot (is it sed? Vim?) the default is that \( is a capture group whereas in normal regex ( is a capture group. Grep offers you three regex variants to choose from. I have to look up regex syntax or do trial and error every time I don't use a language that I use daily. And I don't know all of regex to begin with, I just know everything I ever needed but people posted examples here with (?:x) which I don't know. I once read it and remembered it for a few days I think... so anyway, consistent and descriptive method names seems a lot easier especially when you consider autocompleting IDEs.