I concur with Hawkee wholeheartedly. Regex is universal in just about every programming language known to date. By using tokens (other than the ones made solely for certain programming languages) that will only work for MSL and nothing else.
Aucun50, you don't like using regex is because you don't want or bother to understand how it works. Once you get some understanding of it, you'll find yourself fancying it more than you think.