Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/208/ https://xkcd.com/208/ You're right about many people not being fluent in Regex. If you were fluent though, you wouldn't

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/208/ https://xkcd.com/208/ You're right about many people not being fluent in Regex. If you were fluent though, you wouldn't even need to use it that much anyway, so people don't learn it fully. They just Google for patterns that match their criteria.