Hi all, I am searching for a way to find repetetive characters from a string and work with them. I have found something that works, but looking at it, it doesn't look like the right solution to me. I was hoping some of you know a better solution. Here's my code: 
    my @numbers = $aKnosID =~ m/([a]{2,}|[b]{2,}|[c]{2,}|[d]{2,}|[e]{2
+,}|[f]{2,}|[g]{2,}|[h]{2,}|[i]{2,}|[j]{2,}|[k]{2,}|[l]{2,}|[m]{2,}|[n
+]{2,}|[o]{2,}|[p]{2,}|[q]{2,}|[r]{2,}|[s]{2,}|[t]{2,}|[u]{2,}|[v]{2,}
+|[w]{2,}|[x]{2,}|[y]{2,}|[z]{2,})/g;
    if ( @numbers > 0 ) {
        #repetetive strings here;
        for ($i=0;$i<@numbers;$i++) {
            #Do something
        }
    }
    else {
    }

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In reply to Finding / Replacing repetetive characters from a string in a Regular expression. by nims

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