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This is all speculation of course but a parser is more likely to recognize the author: prefix and then error out on anything unexpected in the rest of the line. Meanwhile regular expressions don't have any way to report errors.



Personally I’d have separated finding the Author line from pulling out the contents of that line - but still used Regex




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