Bump and I know regex a little bit, but I couldn't find an input to use the regex on.
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hmm wrote a python script and it didn't find anything. Oh well. Thanks anyway!
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You should be able to find something if you have the right input to match on.
Also note, that as far as I know in python you need to apply the regex without the global modifier (the "/" in the beginning and "/g" at the end) and instead of using "re.match" use "re.findall" to get the global (multiple) matches. Tried that?
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Discovered this puzzle at the 11th hour. Never heard of RegEx before! Found a place that can do the thing, read through some explanations about the different pieces of the hint ... but now I don't know how to make it spit out the answer π Would love to know the solution to this one.
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I am sorry that it did not work out for you. I will post a solution when the giveaway is over!
It would make me even more happy if I see you on the other side before GA ends :) - You need two things to solve it: the regex and a text to use it on. When you get 5 matches you found it.
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AHHHH THE DESCRIPTION TEXT WAS THE INPUT AND YOU EVEN HINTED THAT IN ANOTHER COMMENT
AHHHHH LOLOLOOLOLLOL SONOFA! PEBKAC!
Thank you for the detailed solution writeup. Please keep making puzzles! βπ€
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This is for BrokenAge and Soulblight.Have fun solving this puzzle, it is for lvl 2 and will last until 17th december.
/(?<![binolvz ])([^!.,127ABSTabdefhikmnoprstuvw ])(?![l])/g
Solution:
A regular expression (regex) is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text.
So it can be used to match specific parts in a text.
If we apply the given regex:
/(?<![binolvz ])([^!.,127ABSTabdefhikmnoprstuvw ])(?![l])/g
on the description textThis is for BrokenAge and Soulblight.Have fun solving this puzzle, it is for lvl 2 and will last until 17th december.
we will get the following matches: "g","l","H","z","c". An easy way to do this is by using online regex matching tools like: https://regexr.com/ , https://regex101.com/ or use any programming langue/script to apply the regex. (see appended image which shows regex101.com)And the 5 letters matched in the text can be used in the steamgifts url like steamgifts.com/giveaway/glHzc/.
More deteiled explanation what does the regex is doing:
([^!.,127ABSTabdefhikmnoprstuvw ])
part tells us, that any character is matched which is not one of.,127ABSTabdefhikmnoprstuvw
.So applying this, we only have the characters
gllgHlgzzlllllll
left from the sentence.inolvz
before the given character. So we only have the charactersglHzc
left. Example: In Soulblight we only match onel
Soulblight since the otherl
has ab
before it, and theg
has ai
before it.Comment has been collapsed.