in reply to is it prime?
Where is my hammer?
sub isPrime($) { $n=pop; 1^(1x$n--)=~/^(1{2,$n})\1+$/; }
With n>2
Just for fun as a contrib to https://github.com/fxn/math-with-regexps/blob/master/one-liners.sh (fxn).
Update, thanks to ambrus's reply: Re^2: is it prime?
sub isPrime($) { (1x pop)!~/^(11+)\1+$/ }
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