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

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

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Hot take: You’re shit at coding if you can’t do regex.

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Regular expressions in general, and automata theory, sure you should know about that. But a specific extended regex language like here? That’s like saying you’re shit at coding if you can’t do <insert arbitrary programming language here>.

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Ah yes, spoken like a true elitist asshole

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It takes a couple of hours to learn the basics.

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And then a few more any time you actually want to use it.

And then double it each time you have to decipher the existing one

Just don’t use regex unless there is really no other way, and when you absolutely have to - frankly, that’s one of the ultra rare occasions I recommend using the AI.

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6 points

Regex should generally be avoided wherever possible.

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Yeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…

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12 points

And misses others you didn’t think about.

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