Practicality Question (Regular Expressions)

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Practicality Question (Regular Expressions)

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Hopefully this is simple question...

When is it deemed practical to use regular expressions type logic over string based logic? Take for example bbcode. all the handlers, classes I have seen use more regular expression than string type functions, why is that?
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