to find the right "translation" for the reg_ex, I'd have to know what Information the reg_ex has to find and what which php-function is used to parse the reg_ex (preg_match, preg_match_all,preg_split, ...)

DS ?

Well, what about looking at lib/item.php

preg_match : 19 times
preg_match_all : 1 time
ereg : 18 times
eregi : 2 times

About their syntax: as said, go Wiki
True, I also love this one :

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$tooltip = preg_replace( '/\|c[a-f0-9]{6,8}(.+?)\|r/', '$1', $tooltip );

This one goes way beyond a basic PHP strpos("123456789","34") which returns just a 2.

One can consider the original English enUS locale as the stable and working one. So, mentioned keywords (character sequences) have to translated.
The nasty part: some thing can be said entirely different in German (and I know what I'm talking about, doing the same thing from French to English).

My point of view is that WoW didn't build a special French version of client and its servers. We're all natively 'enUS' in their databases, so all text is translated with rules have a localized version.
Up to all of us to find our own localized character sequences in the tooltip info to do the counting magic, and 'grouping up'.

i had a look at these things. as i only have very low programming knowledge and very limited time i can not and dont want to learn regex now.

i will keep on translating the remaining "official" addons. the changing of the string pattern has to be done by someone else. but i can help with the exact wording etc...