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Regular expression for matching any word in `/usr/share/dict/words`.
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Generated with frak.

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$ du -h word-re
1.5M    word-re

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bulters commented Aug 12, 2013

This regex needs I18n....

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For anyone attempting to try out this pattern be aware that it is very large and may not work depending on your programming language. The pattern should be compatible with most languages that have builtin support regular expressions (but I make no guarantees).

For anyone suggesting this is a hoax; it is not. Clone the repo, install leiningen, run lein repl from the root of the repo, follow the instructions here, and witness true for yourself. If able, learn Clojure and regular expressions; you'll become a better programmer for it.

For anyone not wise enough to know better: do not use this for anything serious. This was more of a "what if I..." experiment for fun. That being said, I hope you find this as funny and interesting as I do.

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