NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1337arrow-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-21 year agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAh, didn’t know +? was lazy, thanks
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI thought, the +? was going to be a syntax error. 🙃
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI was like, why specify “one or more” and then make it optional? Isn’t that just .*?
Ah, didn’t know +? was lazy, thanks
I thought, the +? was going to be a syntax error. 🙃
I was like, why specify “one or more” and then make it optional? Isn’t that just .*?