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Oh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand. (lemmy.world)
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^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I was a sysadmin with some Linux usage in 1998, does that count?