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^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It matches “yo momma”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I could be wrong but I think the (..+?) portion will either remove a dud or replenish the allowance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The pipe is throwing me off because usually I have to do parentheses for that to work...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

For a second I thought I was still in the thread about monkeys face-rolling typewriters until the heat death of the universe not eventually producing Hamlet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It matches for non-primes and doesn't match for primes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All my homies hate regexs. That's actually the best use case I found for LLMs so far : I just tell it what I want it to match or not match, and it usually spits out a decent one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That sounds…

Easier to get almost right than actually learning the subject.

Much, much harder to get completely right than actually learning the subject.

So yes, basically the archetypal use case for LLMs.

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