You don't need to be a developer or a wizard to be proficient in writing regular expressions. Regular expressions are used by all kinds of professions; that's w

You don't need to be a developer or a wizard to be proficient in writing regular expressions. Regular expressions are used by all kinds of professions; that's why regular expression capability is included in almost every text editor. The best way to learn to love regular expressions is to use them outside of a programming context, where you can get real-time feedback with actual test data. Some text editors will even highlight matches as you type the expression out.