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

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

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[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

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.