Making regular expressions more friendly

[Garrett G. Hodgson]

Ian Clarke wrote:

> I have never liked regular expressions, they seem to come from the Perl
> school of programming 

a minor nit: it would be more accurate to say that perl 
comes from the regular expression school of programming,
as expressed in tools like sed, grep(s), and awk.

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