That reads better than regex, but at that point, why not just use parser combinators? At least for me, whenever I want something more complex than a basic regex

That reads better than regex, but at that point, why not just use parser combinators? At least for me, whenever I want something more complex than a basic regex, I go for a parser combinator library. Maybe that's what's happening under the hood anyways? I don't know Julia well enough to know.