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In a message to comp.emacs.xemacs, Jamie Zawinski once said:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

I've always had trouble understanding what he was getting at. What does he mean by this?

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The answer that I'm looking for is one which explains what the 2nd problem is. Most answers below are that regexes are hard, which doesn't seem to fit the question.

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