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Thanks to Andrew for pointing me at The Meaning Of Life FAQ. This guy had far too much free time on his hands.

And I hate PHP, I really do. What a stupid stupid language with a rediculous syntax. You want to match '\]', you'd think a regexp for \\] would do the job - escape the \. But no, it needs to escape those, since the string parser sees \\ and thinks 'ah, thats a \ thats been escaped', so sends off \] to the regexp parser, which thinks 'ah, thats a ] thats been escaped'. Retarded. And it makes you have rediculous regular expressions like "/^(.*?)\\[([^\\]]+?)(?<!\\\\):([^\\]]+?)(?<!\\\\):(.+?)(?<!\\\\)\](.*)$/". See what I mean? Dumb language. They copied the good bits of perl and implemented them in such a way that they're hell to use. And they say php is friendlier than perl. They can't even give their functions a standard interface. Pah.

And you've got to love IRC...