You raise a good point, I tend to like them for parsing but they are not silver bullet for sure. They do have their weaknesses, that being said, when I use a re

You raise a good point, I tend to like them for parsing but they are not silver bullet for sure. They do have their weaknesses, that being said, when I use a regular expression, I always document it for myself and other developers, even if it is redundant information I document it, due to the fact that they are not readable and I tend to not like magic code.