On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> Hi
>
> How can I match the same character repeated n times?
> ".{n}" matches any n characters.
You want to remember the first character and match the same using a
backreference. In grep:
\(.\)\1
In egrep, perl, or ruby:
(.)\1
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