Regular Expressions (regexes) are found everywhere in computer interfaces, even if they seem to be obscured from the typical user. Our Csc148H1 assignment 2 is all about working with them, and since then, I have developed a deep respect for the people involved in the coding of regexes, because while the programming process seems to be easy at first glance, it is actually very complicated. There are always cases you have not considered and even when you do, you might get it wrong. For example, the star '*' case might seem very easy to code for at first, but it actually involves creating slices of the original string to be compared with the remaining regex.
When I mentioned that regexes are sometimes obscured, I'm talking about how search engines such as Google Search parses strings in the form 'r1 r2 r3' as r1.r2.r3. When you think about it, there is a lot going underneath the shiny interfaces that we encounter in our daily virtual lives.
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