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Re: Regex Golf

#2
I like the concept but the word choice doesn't seem too "regular", it is more about catching all the particulars rather than finding a pattern as far as I can tell.

Re: Regex Golf

#5
I like the idea, but words there seems to be pretty random. I can't figure out the pattern, not even talking about writing regex... :(

Re: Regex Golf

#6
what's the pattern on "Abba"? I thought it was just to exclude doubled letters but I have doubles on two words on the left hand side as well (noisefully and effusive, in case the word lists are the same)

Re: Regex Golf

#8
post #2

I like the concept but the word choice doesn't seem too "regular", it is more about catching all the particulars rather than finding a pattern as far as I can tell.

There are good patterns, the first regex for me was /foo/, the second /ick$/, for example. They're there.

Re: Regex Golf

#10
post #5

I like the idea, but words there seems to be pretty random. I can't figure out the pattern, not even talking about writing regex... :(

I got a 3 character pattern for the first puzzle and a 4 character pattern for the second puzzle (and reading a comment here I see there is a 2 char pattern for the second puzzle).

Only used 1 special char between them (anchoring something). So the first two sets have repeated 3 character sequences, and in one of them they follow an additional pattern.

For the third sequence, 8 character solution, lots of specials.

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