It’s really not too bad as long as:

  • you use a proper IDE (e.g. Regex101) with highlighting and piecewise explanations

  • you use named capturing groups

  • you give the regex a descriptive name in your code

People write regex in notepad and complain it doesn’t work on the first try…

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