NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-213 hours agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1187arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldNateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-213 hours agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedanticlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 hours agoEmpty input Or input of exactly 1 character Or input of at least 2 characters, followed by at least 1 something (idk what \1 matches) Did I get it (almost)?
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 hours ago\1 is group 1 which is inside (), so second part is repeated 2 or more times of 2 or more char.
Empty input Or input of exactly 1 character Or input of at least 2 characters, followed by at least 1 something (idk what \1 matches)
Did I get it (almost)?
\1 is group 1 which is inside
(), so second part is repeated 2 or more times of 2 or more char.