NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-26 days agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up15arrow-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-26 days agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 days 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.)
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.)