@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • edit-27 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-27 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]OPlinkfedilink11•7 months agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•7 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.
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.