@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-29 hours agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.imagemessage-square35arrow-up1125arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-29 hours agomessage-square35file-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-square@fubolink9•edit-24 hours agoWhatever you do, don’t get in a time machine back to 1998 and become a Unix sysadmin. (Though we didn’t have CL-PPCRE then. It’s really the best thing that ever happened to regex.)
minus-square@Treczokslink3•3 hours agoI have to admit that using CL-PPCRE does not really help me understanding the regexp any better. But this may be because I deal with complex regexps for decades now, and I just read them.
Whatever you do, don’t get in a time machine back to 1998 and become a Unix sysadmin.
(Though we didn’t have CL-PPCRE then. It’s really the best thing that ever happened to regex.)
I have to admit that using CL-PPCRE does not really help me understanding the regexp any better. But this may be because I deal with complex regexps for decades now, and I just read them.