My two penneth: I find the replacement part the easiest and escping all the characters which mean something in regexp to be the most annoying part. Adding a ne

My two penneth: I find the replacement part the easiest and escping all the characters which mean something in regexp to be the most annoying part. Adding a new char to be escaped seems like another annoyance. I try to avoid tools that make the hard bit harder, and the easy bit easier