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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 months 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 · 2 months 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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knowing Matt Parker it only matches prime numbers or multiples of e or something.

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  Matt Parker will destroy us all! (https://youtu.be/GyNbLtiAgj4?si=r77Ef7wm9EZ83T6J)

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