http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=1082407


in reply to better way to escape escapes

Hard to say without knowing more about the format

Oodles of s///ubstitutions is very easy to get wrong and very hard to get right

http://tt3.template-toolkit.org/talks/tt3-lpw2009/slides/slide17.html

See also the real discouragement Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML! and the real encouragement Re^2: parsing XML fragments (xml log files) with... a regex