Amen to that. For reasons I can only guess at, I'm the "regex guy" at work. When people have a regex question they come to me. And the interesting thing is that the answers are not hard, well within the 20% area. I've found that most people don't care to learn how to use character classes, or even what they're for. For example, to match the single letter 'i', I've seen people write:

    [i]

Many don't know the difference nor implications of .* ? vs .*

And on and on. It amazes me that these people actually code for a living.