Mastering Regular Expressions 2nd Ed.

[Peter Hansen]

Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> 
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > Argggh!  That sounds like regular expressions aren't really the best
> > way to match RFC822 addresses.
> 
> Regular expressions work much better if you use them for lexical
> analysis rather than for parsing.

Would you please expand on that for those of us who are not computer
scientists and/or who do not understand the implications of your
statement?

Thanks,
-Peter