it's readable if you understand regexp.

The original is pretty readable. The unreadable aspects are the variable names, and that doesn't qualify as flexing. Not everything needs to be 35 lines and it's fine.

It is worth it. But chiefly in certain self-contained and exceptional scenarios:

1. Search and search-and-replace operations in code editors, terminals, databases, and spreadsheets.
2. Code that will never need to be shared or debugged, such as one-off automation scripts or data extraction/manipulation.
3. A proven performance improvement achieved by the RegEx engine to widen a particular performance bottleneck in an app or database query.
4. Scenarios where the readability/debuggability trade-off when compared to the alternative code is a wash, such as can easily be the case in complicated spreadsheet formulas.
5. CodeWars katas. 😉

you can also get rid of the last semicolon :))))))))))))))))))

just learn and practice regexs. it's worth it!

I LOVED this :)

Guys at least stop voting for "Best Practices" when you mean "Clever".

This has zero readability

excuse me , WHAT? LMAO!!!!!!