NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-217 days agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1335arrow-down1external-linkOh 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-217 days agomessage-square83fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareNateNate60@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·17 days agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-squareyrmp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·17 days agoAnd misses others you didn’t think about.
minus-squaregwilikers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 days 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.