schuelerminecan you use PCRE2 regexes to replace repeated occurrences of characters that alternate between two character classes, e.g. [ab] and [xy], separated by some character, e.g. -, so a-x-b-x-a-y-b-y-b-x-a-x-a-y-a-x-b, with that same string with the separator removed?
schuelermine(obviously you can repeatedly substitute pairs but I wanna do it in ONE pass)
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:MiraLovesYou:@anselmschueler@ieji.des/\([ab]\)-\([xy]\)/\1\2/g ?
That's just ordinary regex
schuelermine@rl_dane@polymaths.social that won’t replace overlapping pairs
a-x-a-x → ax-ax