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he lost my attention with this:

> I genuinely - and possibly misguidedly - believe that even something like

    ^\w+([-+.']\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*$
> might just as well be written in BrainFuck.

all those \w & \W's? c'mon, that's the easiest RE parsing task you could possibly confront!

it is really difficult to look at RE expressions, but it's also really hard to think of a better way



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