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I am working in a scripting language called mivascript. It is unbelievably ugly and horrible. I don't even know how it got to the point it's at. Anyway, it doesn't have regex support at all. I don't understand how the script even caught on without regex support. That just doesn't seem right. Would you learn a language if you knew up front there was and never will be regex support?
If you have to waste resource string manipulating things with functions that were not meant for that purpose, then you are not in the right environment. In my opinion.
Strange that you're asking this question. I got a friend whos working for a company which services clients in Java apps alone and no one there seems to be into RegExp. They dont seem to need it all because they have all the API to extract what ever that need to. They're not into web-development but client-server apps (I think desktop based only).
I find that only ppl in web-development seem to require RegExp.
There's a reason it's called PCRE.. Perl Compatible Regular Expression. I.e. nothing but Perl supports it natively even in PHP it is an optional extension.