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Regular Expressions - I'm Not a Regular Expressionist, but I Like Regular Expression Am
regular expressions are very dfficult to read. You tend to get long strings of gibberish, which you might find it quite hard to pars and figure out what's actually doing. But this is a library written by al swagart, and i think thats how yu rit his name, rhymes with wider am. It compiles regular expressions from a bunction bunch of function calls. And these function calls are much more descriptive and read quite well. So you can essentially read regular expression am in the future and and find it quite legible.
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