Troy,
My 2 cents- it totally depends on what kind of RegEx you're ending up with.
RegEx buys you power for expressing complex rules. A hand crafted solution will almost always run faster, it's just a matter of whether you can afford to write new code for every case instead of just accumulating expressions and letting the RegEx engine do the work.
For example, if I wanted to remove HTML tags from text, I'd probably use something hand-crafted for speed. If I wanted to verify a valid URL in a strict standards-compliant sense, I'd probably drop in the nasty RegEx because I wouldn't trust my hand-crafted code to catch everything without a ton of effort.
- Brian
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