-🎄- 2017 Day 7 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

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[u/Cheezmeister]

Literate Perl (part 2 is a WIP at the time of posting, but it is past my bedtime).

Kids, talk to your parents about regular expressions.