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

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

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeah, but in an FSM all you have are states. To do it the obvious way, you need a loop with separate branches for every number greater than 2, or at the very least every prime number, and that's not going to be finite.

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