Re: Regex Match for 3 repeated word characters

If I understand the question correctly, this would work:

print "bad monkey!" if $pass =~ /(.)\1\1/;
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Re: Re: Regex Match for 3 repeated word characters by hsweet (Pilgrim) on May 08, 2003 at 23:54 UTC
Let me see if I get it all. You're using a backreference variable to a dot match (.), which is any character. How come \1 and not $1? Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banannas	[reply]