Yeah the StringSplit is a bit of a hack but gets the job done and is easy to use for people who want to avoid SRE. If you want to start with regular expressions be sure to check out this website (I recommend you start here with the quickstart), all of it if you can. Learning regex will take you alot longer then a weekend though, trust me There are of course other good resources out there but I suggest you start with that one, it has simple and a bit more advanced examples, but there almost all quite practical and well explained. Good luck and have fun with it. Edit: grammar Edit: link to quickstart