If you wish to match three or more "S"s then you can use the pattern /S{3,}/ and if you wanted to match, say, three to six of them then do /S{3,6}/. If you want to replace more than one occurrence of something in a string then make your substitution global by using the g modifier. Here is a bit of code to illustrate these points. Note that I capture the "S"s that I match using parentheses, "(" and ")", then use what I captured in the substitution as $1.

$ perl -le '   
-> $str = q{sfSSSfsdSSSSSseSShySSSScvbcv};
-> print $str;
-> $str =~ s{(S{3,})}{<tag>$1</tag>}g;
-> print $str;'
sfSSSfsdSSSSSseSShySSSScvbcv
sf<tag>SSS</tag>fsd<tag>SSSSS</tag>seSShy<tag>SSSS</tag>cvbcv
$

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I hope this helps you.

Cheers,

JohnGG

Update: Fixed typos.

In reply to Re^3: coloring patterns of an array by johngg
in thread coloring patterns of an array by Tony1

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