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    Your recent slew of regex questions seems to suggest you're building a translator of some sort. If that is indeed the case, I suggest you look at Perl: its regular expressions are far from regular and you can easily build a BNF-like grammar in its regex flavor and use it to parse your source language. Depending on the task, even flex might be able to help. Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 21:41
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    Thanks Joseph. to be honest I'm initially more focused on building my basic raw regex, sed and awk skills. Perl skills are certainly good too and Perl is fairly ubiquitous in availability. However I am using a dozen other frameworks and languages so I have to limit myself to what I handle today. I'm certainly going nuts on the {} sub-block trick I just learned! Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 22:28
  • You won't build those skills by taking advice like that given in the answer here. Commented Jul 15, 2015 at 23:47