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If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.
Writing regex is easy.
Reading it again after a couple of weeks...
Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.
It's a write only language