NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-22 months agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up135arrow-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-22 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI upvoted this because I hate it.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoWhatever you do, don’t get in a time machine back to 1998 and become a Unix sysadmin. (Though we didn’t have CL-PPCRE then. It’s really the best thing that ever happened to regex.)
I upvoted this because I hate it.
Whatever you do, don’t get in a time machine back to 1998 and become a Unix sysadmin.
(Though we didn’t have CL-PPCRE then. It’s really the best thing that ever happened to regex.)