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Either would work-- !/,,/ exludes strings containing 2 consecutive commas, and !/,{2,}/ excludes strings containing 2-or-more consecutive commas, which amounts to pretty much the same thing for what you want, if I've understood you correctly.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Regular Expression Question
by kesterkester (Hermit) on Dec 04, 2003 at 21:41 UTC
    Oop, sorry-- misread your question. If you wanted to check for more than 2 commas, you'd want to use either: 
    /(\w+[\w,]+\w+)/ && !/,,,/

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    or this: 

    if /^(\w+[\w,]+\w+)$/ && !/,{3,}/;

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