Regular expressions are not the easiest thing in the world to quickly understand. Most developers only work with regular expressions when they really, really have to.

But what if there was another way?

There is and it’s called VerbalExpressions. VerbalExpressions is a collection of over two dozen repositories and libraries that use plain and simple language to describe a regular expression. In fact the motto they use is, “Regular Expressions made easy”.

VerbalExpressions is a quick and easy way to write complex regular expressions. In this blog, I will use the VerbalExpressions JavaScript implementation as my library of choice to demonstrate this great tool to you.