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It's the first time I've seen someone say that regular expressions are intelligent because they "understand" patterns.
People do talk about writing things that "the compiler can understand" so it's nothing new. Also I think you meant to say regular expressions understand strings, not patterns - or that regular expression engines understand patterns.