Alex Chan on Mythryl: “I don’t want to repeat repeat myself: alexwlchan.net/2026/repeati…”

I don’t want to repeat repeat myself: alexwlchan.net/2026/repeati... I wrote about these two regular expressions: \b([A-Za-z]+) \1\b \b([A-Za-z]+ [A-Za-z]+) \1\b They helped me find a bunch of mistakes where I had repeated words or phrases. Try them in your writing and code today!

alexwlchan.netI don’t want to repeat repeat myselfI wrote a pair of regular expressions to find repeated words and phrases in my source code.

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