I really liked eykanal's answer [1]. > Regular expressions are a tool. It happens to be a > very useful tool, so many people choose to learn how >

I really liked eykanal's answer [1]. > Regular expressions are a tool. It happens to be a > very useful tool, so many people choose to learn how > to use it. However, there's no "requirement" for > you to learn how to use this particular tool, any > more than there is a "requirement" for you to learn > anything else. Nails it. I do think most programmers will eventually run across a problem to which the solution is 'Use Regex', but it's not an absolute "must" like boolean logic. [1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/133968/is-it-a-must-for-every-programmer-to-learn-regular-expressions#answer-133970 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/133968/is-it-...