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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“abbabba”

“abbabba” doesn't match the original regex but “abbaabba” does

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good catch! Typo. Fixed.