Regular Expressions are Anything But Regular

I’ve been spending a bit of time the last couple of days trying to figure out exactly how regular expressions work. I’ve got to use one in an application I’m working on and I’m just not getting the syntax organization at all.

Although you may think it’s gibberish, the text above is the regular expression I’m using for the solution to my earlier problem. Doesn’t look very "regular" does it? Aside...