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usonian

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Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:17 PM Oct 2025

Elvish?

Last edited Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Found on the internet.



Points if you can decode the "Elvish".
I did.

On edit: SPOILER
It's a regular expression to identify a valid email address. (if not 100% bulletproof)

This addresses it specifically
How To Use Regex To Match An Email Address
https://gist.github.com/JoshMassa/410e73b77d3ae4f21f6d03808795f7ac

I first learned about regular expressions learning Unix back in the 1980's, to use "grep" and soon thereafter using perl, which was kind of new at the time, and is still crazy powerful in scripts.



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