No conclusions yet, the script (together with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moreati&#x2F;parsedover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moreati&#x2F;parsedover</a>) is mainly a dumping ground&#x2F;personal notes while I try various parsing approaches. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moreati&#x2F;structlytyped" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moreati&#x2F;structlytyped</a> was a diversion into parsing binary data.<p>I&#x27;m trying various not-regex syntaxes. My motivation is: we all agree regex is bad, but we keep using it because it&#x27;s available everywhere and hence the least common denominator (a schelling point). What would it take to get beyond regex as the goto pattern matching&#x2F;parsing? At least for casual use.