Encourage students to learn how to read regular expressions to prepare for when they come across them in their careers.

Students don’t need to be able to write RegEx from scratch because a lot of professionals don’t.

In many languages there are also better alternatives to RegEx (e.g., filter_var in PHP).

Reading them and refining your references is enough.
Remind students that they’ll always be able to search for answers, which is what professionals do.

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