I learned regex by writing an online poker hand history converter. I used to refer to it as spaghetti php code, but I've come to realise it was just newbie func

I learned regex by writing an online poker hand history converter. I used to refer to it as spaghetti php code, but I've come to realise it was just newbie functional php wrapping a stack of regex. Mid way through my 20 year career I realised that every job I'd had really came down to parsing data and outputting something a company finds value in. It's regex all the way down.