It doesn't seem to simplify regex, just make it more verbose. That might be fine, except the people who need to understand how to use it, must already understan

It doesn't seem to simplify regex, just make it more verbose. That might be fine, except the people who need to understand how to use it, must already understand the concepts of regexes. And if you can use this library without understanding regex, you might be better of not using regex at all. Regex looks complex at first glance, but with a good cheatsheet and tool you should have no problem. http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ is a great tool for building and testing regexes.