Reminds me of work, a coworker was telling me that a new guy, who eventually quit, was really close to solving an issue with had with HTML in some fields where

Reminds me of work, a coworker was telling me that a new guy, who eventually quit, was really close to solving an issue with had with HTML in some fields where it doesn't belong, and then mentioned that the new guy was using regex to do it. I was like, I doubt he was actually close to solving the problem. That said, he likely would have solved our need because it really is just a subset of HTML used for stylizing text and not the full language, but it's a harder problem than people initially think.