Not the first time someone has coerced a regex into doing some nontrivial computation; here's a memorable example: http://realgl.blogspot.com/2013/08/battlecod

Not the first time someone has coerced a regex into doing some nontrivial computation; here's a memorable example: http://realgl.blogspot.com/2013/08/battlecode.html http://realgl.blogspot.com/2013/08/battlecode.html (scroll down to "Regular Expression Pathfinding"