The naive way is, of course, !!+. There's also a the {MIN,MAX} syntax that lets you explicitly specify a quantity, where either of the numbers the comma and MAX value is optional, that lets you write !{2,}. Since MAX defaults to "infinite" if left out, that will match when there are at least two exclamation marks. MIN defaults to zero, btw, and If you leave out the comma as in .{2}, that sets both MIN and MAX ie it means "exactly this many".

If you put the entire expression in capturing parentheses, you get to look at the length of the captured string.

So you probably want something like m/(!{2,})/g.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Tracking consecutive characters by Aristotle
in thread Tracking consecutive characters by Anonymous Monk

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