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NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml ·
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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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Oh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.

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NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml ·
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^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

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

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

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    Interesting.

    So that means match any string that is made entirely of a single repeating sequence, where repititon is possible.

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