neidu2, 1 year ago (edited 9 months ago)

using regex to find the absolute value of a number:
$number =~ s/-//;

using regex to check if a number is odd:
print “odd!\n” if (($number / 2) =~ /./)

…and generally abusing regex for weird stuff it wasn’t intended for, because the regex engine is surprisingly efficient.

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