I had read on some tech site, some years ago, that Friedl worked at Yahoo for a while, and IIRC in a role involving a lot of text munging, which would probably

I had read on some tech site, some years ago, that Friedl worked at Yahoo for a while, and IIRC in a role involving a lot of text munging, which would probably have involved a lot of regular expression usage, maybe across the many web properties they had in that period, which included Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Finance, and many more. Found that interesting. I had bought his book around that time or sometime later, but never read it fully, partly because I used to go cross-eyed from reading the text with all the italics and other highlighting (of the regexes in action) in a small font, which was probably needed to explain regex concepts, but still ... but after reading this thread, I feel motivated to dive into regex again, at least at the shallow end of the pool, although I have dabbled in it and used it now and then in my work, before now.