There's no chance you're going to convince me that throwing out regexes in favour of writing EVERYTHING procedurally is a good idea. I fully agree that they sho

There's no chance you're going to convince me that throwing out regexes in favour of writing EVERYTHING procedurally is a good idea. I fully agree that they should often be built programatically to improve readability and reduce duplication. But capture groups, lookahead operators, kleene stars - these are a drag to do manually, not to mention you lose regex compiler optimisations - regex is the way.