Learn RegEx, Save the World

A little while ago, I decided to finally get my head around regular expressions. And of course, I discovered what everyone already knows - RegExs are very cool and awesome.

Earlier in the week I needed to parse a rather large section of text to pull out some values (this is for part of the work I'm doing with ICE at the moment - and a post for another time). The work reminded me of a comic I'd seen a week or two earlier. It pretty much summed up how I felt: