First of all, when I saw the title I was hoping for a reference to bobince's epic html regex parse answer - was not disappointed :)
But more importantly, I think this a great solution for 90% of regex use-cases. In my experience most of these time you have simple patterns like yours where you don't need the full power of regex but there isn't a better alternative in the language. So your end up with PRs where a single character typo will result in an error can easily end up in prod.
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First of all, when I saw the title I was hoping for a reference to bobince's epic html regex parse answer - was not disappointed :)
But more importantly, I think this a great solution for 90% of regex use-cases. In my experience most of these time you have simple patterns like yours where you don't need the full power of regex but there isn't a better alternative in the language. So your end up with PRs where a single character typo will result in an error can easily end up in prod.