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Created March 15, 2016 17:24
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Find the longest common prefix in a list of strings using only a regex
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longest-common-prefix.js
['aaawhu', 'aaaajkssh', 'aaahwv', 'aaa'].join().match(/^(\w*)\w*(?:,\1\w*)*$/).pop();
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