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

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

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was younger then, perhaps less disciplined, and as always, given enough work you can decompile or regenerate anything. Still, I contend, the nature of Perl, powerful as it was, lent itself to unmaintainable messes, and I'm not talking regex's, which is why it has faded, no amount of get gud withstanding.

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