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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 25 days ago

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

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

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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 25 days ago

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

<answer>

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM

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