Are regexes really maintainable?
- by Rich Bradshaw
Any code I've seen that uses Regexes tends to use them as a black box:
Put in string
Magic Regex
Get out string
This doesn't seem a particularly good idea to use in production code, as even a small change can often result in a completely different regex.
Apart from cases where the standard is permanent and unchanging, are regexes the way to do things, or is it better to try different methods?