@NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • edit-223 days agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1328arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.world@NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • edit-223 days agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-square@NateNate60@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilink13•23 days agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-square@gwilikers@lemmy.mllinkfedilink6•23 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.