I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
If there's a problem where it makes sense, I love it.
Regular expressions can be written in a clear and easy-to-read way, across multiple lines and with comments. They can condense a lot of logic into something easy to parse by humans, even though their reputation says otherwise. Trying to replicate what they do with a bunch of separate if contains(..) and startsWith(..) and not contains(..) methods is a hack, imo.
Using them for anything where a simple single, named method would suffice is a bad idea.
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If there's a problem where it makes sense, I love it.
Regular expressions can be written in a clear and easy-to-read way, across multiple lines and with comments. They can condense a lot of logic into something easy to parse by humans, even though their reputation says otherwise. Trying to replicate what they do with a bunch of separate
if contains(..) and startsWith(..) and not contains(..)methods is a hack, imo.Using them for anything where a simple single, named method would suffice is a bad idea.