@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-213 hours agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.imagemessage-square58arrow-up1193arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1189arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-213 hours agomessage-square58file-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 hour agoYes, the first one matches only 2 more characters while the second matches 1 or more. Also the +? is a lazy quantifier so it will consume as little as possible.
Is there a reason to use
(..+?)instead of(.+)?Yes, the first one matches only 2 more characters while the second matches 1 or more. Also the +? is a lazy quantifier so it will consume as little as possible.
Ah, didn’t know +? was lazy, thanks