Regex vs loops and splits sounds like a classic case for a divide and conquer pattern. Use simple maybe trivial regexes for everything you can, but split the en

Regex vs loops and splits sounds like a classic case for a divide and conquer pattern. Use simple maybe trivial regexes for everything you can, but split the entire whole into simple bits using loops and splits. But there's no way I'm top 1% - maybe top 20% in my prime on a good day :-)