I'm addicted to .NET Regular Expressions

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Now that I started using Regular Expressions in .NET, I can't seem to stop. I had always used Instr, Mid, etc. in VB6 to parse complex HTML, but now I find myself trying to use Regular Expressions constantly. Sometimes even when I just need to get one bit of info from a datastream that I KNOW would be faster using SubString and IndexOf in .NET.

What's worse is that when I need to do maintenance on an old VB6 program that uses complex parsing, I think about trying out the Regular Expressions library that I can use in VB6 to convert the whole parsing engine, although it isn't as powerful as the .NET implementation.

I know the first step to recovery is to admit that I have a problem.
 
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