For Brackets, I went with something that's not a regex because I wanted certain parts of the string to be "special": http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/br

For Brackets, I went with something that's not a regex because I wanted certain parts of the string to be "special": http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-thats-no-regex/ http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2013/03/26/brackets-quick-open-... But, I'll definitely look up a couple of the links that people have posted here about some other algorithms (Smith-Waterman, for example).