The good, bad and ugly of "Regular expressions"

“Regular expressions” is one topic, which I love to hate. It needs to be used every now and then but the problem is that I never seem to get it. It’s been so long that whenever I try to write my own I simply make a simple search of google and I normally find it. So that is the max I know about RE. Lets see when I can finally get over this. Maybe someday.

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