Back in the 90s fresh out of college I remember writing routines to validate phone numbers and email addresses and stuff like that in VisualBasic. Yeah, I didn

Back in the 90s fresh out of college I remember writing routines to validate phone numbers and email addresses and stuff like that in VisualBasic. Yeah, I didn't know about regular expressions at the time.... (facepalm) ...I was really just writing these things in straight up VB. I'm not knocking what you were doing; I'm sure you had the sense to use regex or something. I did not. lol