Is there a reason to use (..+?)
instead of (.+)
?
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...either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?
The pipe is throwing me off because usually I have to do parentheses for that to work...
It matches for non-primes and doesn't match for primes.
I'm I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky
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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