You will not think about using Regular Expressions anymore14 min read·13 hours agoFor many years, regular expressions have been my go-to tool for parsing documents, and I am sure it has been the same for many other technical folks and industries.Even though regular expressions are powerful and successful in some case, they often struggle with the complexity and variability of real-world documents.Large language models on the other end provide a more powerful, and flexible approach to handle many types of document structures and content types.It’s always good to have a clear understanding of the main components of the system being built. To make things simple, let’s focus on a scenario of research paper processing.