> ... to rewrite strings according to simple composable rules like ...

more often than not, regexp/replace is a hack to avoid the "real thing" 
(parse -> AST -> transform -> AST' -> print).

such hacks tend to grow into something that is definitely not composable.

but, you can be a hero ... http://xkcd.com/208/


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