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^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

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

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is there a reason to use (..+?) instead of (.+) ?

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

...either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The pipe is throwing me off because usually I have to do parentheses for that to work...

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

It matches for non-primes and doesn't match for primes.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All my homies hate regexs. That's actually the best use case I found for LLMs so far : I just tell it what I want it to match or not match, and it usually spits out a decent one

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