So  'a_________'  '%%a_____%%'  '123456789_' would be strings skooma would want to match? That wasn't my (limited) understanding after reading the OP. 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"for my $s (qw(a_________  %%a_____%%  123456789_)) {
   print qq{'$s' matches} if $s =~ /[[:alnum:]]+[_]+/;
   }
"
'a_________' matches
'%%a_____%%' matches
'123456789_' matches

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Update 1: And what about the  { } curlies?

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In reply to Re^4: Looking for a regular expression for the following pattern. by AnomalousMonk
in thread Looking for a regular expression for the following pattern. by skooma

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