NateNate60 to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.imagemessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1337arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.NateNate60 to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square80linkfedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareFeathercrownlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI was like, why specify “one or more” and then make it optional? Isn’t that just .*?
I was like, why specify “one or more” and then make it optional? Isn’t that just .*?