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Oh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand. (lemmy.world)

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^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

It matches “yo momma”.

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024

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