The worst thing about regular expressions is that most people only need them occasionally. You invest a few hours becoming an expert and then forget a lot of i

The worst thing about regular expressions is that most people only need them occasionally. You invest a few hours becoming an expert and then forget a lot of it by the next time you need them. For this reason I really appreciate tools that explain expressions in plain english. For example check out how RegEx buddy parses this expression: http://www.regexbuddy.com/screens/analyze.png http://www.regexbuddy.com/screens/analyze.png