Alternative to regular expressions

If you’re annoyed by regex’s syntax and simply don’t like the notation, or your specific regex library is awfully slow, there are alternatives. Regex is hard to read, even one’s own expressions after some time. Regex does not understand numbers and cannot be debugged simply to find flaws in the pattern. Sometimes simple tasks require hours of construction and edge cases are quickly overseen. For those of you that struggle with regex, please have a look at Scripal.