Re:stay away from regexes (Score 2, Insightful)

Regular expressions are a fantastic thing to use in development and are perfect for data validation. I needed to parse huge csv files and filter out all the bogus values in certain colums. Without regex this would have been a nightmare. I used a csv parser to break all the tokens up and then regex to validate. Everything has its place, you must learn to embrace change not deter others from using it because you wont learn it.