NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-26 months agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-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-26 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIs there a reason to use (..+?) instead of (.+) ?
Is there a reason to use
(..+?)instead of(.+)?