[clug] Substring repetition detection

[Jepri]

Or you could do it with one line of perl:

/((\w+)\2+)/

If you wanted perl to do it all for you then repeated applications of

s/((\w+)\2+)/$1/

should do the trick.



On 2003.06.25 17:37, David Price wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:27:03PM +1000, David Ananian-Cooper wrote:
> > a b c d a b c d a b z f g
> > - - - - 4 4 4 4 4 4 - - -
> >
> > here 4 >= 6, but the last 2 4's should not be considered as part of
> the
> > repeating pattern
> 
> Good point :)
> 
> I guess you'd round down to the next lowest multiple of n, where n is
> 4 in this case.
> 
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