@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • edit-28 months agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1320
arrow-up1320imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.world@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • edit-28 months agomessage-square83fedilink
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•8 months agoRegex should generally be avoided wherever possible.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink11•8 months agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoYeah, I’ve found myself wasting quite a lot of time thinking of the ‘perfect regex’ for task X only to realise that I could have avoided doing so by simply taking a different approach.
Regex should generally be avoided wherever possible.
Yeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
And misses others you didn’t think about.
Yeah, I’ve found myself wasting quite a lot of time thinking of the ‘perfect regex’ for task X only to realise that I could have avoided doing so by simply taking a different approach.