> Perl's regular expressions to parse […] To be fair, Tcl has Henry Spencer’s regexp[0][1], and is awesome; Postgres also base their regex on Henry’s work for

> Perl's regular expressions to parse […] To be fair, Tcl has Henry Spencer’s regexp[0][1], and is awesome; Postgres also base their regex on Henry’s work for Tcl[2]. Perl is certainly famous for its regex and popularizing thinking of problems in terms of regexes (for better or for worse[3]), but it’s not the only game in town. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer [1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Regular+Expressions https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Regular+Expressions [2] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/regex/COPYRIGHT https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend... [3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags#1732454 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...