I thought this as well but didn't want to get sidetracked on a specific. Perl was one of my first languages and regexes were one of the big tools I started usi

I thought this as well but didn't want to get sidetracked on a specific. Perl was one of my first languages and regexes were one of the big tools I started using, while I was processing text files. Once parsing lines of ASCII stopped being my major task, regexes stopped being a frequent tool.