This brings to mind the fantastic "Regular Expression Matching can be Simple and Fast"[0] article. [0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20150315004427/http://swtch.

This brings to mind the fantastic "Regular Expression Matching can be Simple and Fast"[0] article. [0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20150315004427/http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html http://web.archive.org/web/20150315004427/http://swtch.com/~...