Hi Monks ,
Have a question for you regarding regular expressions.
Suppose I have the following string:
Gyatso is a bad monk as bad as bad bad as bad bad bad bad bad.

Say I want a regular expression to:
Match the string starting with Gyatso upto the third 'bad' and not more.

Regular expression I wrote:
^Gyatso.+?bad.+?bad.+?bad

Though above regex matches the requirement but I am not happy at all with this regexp and I am sure there must be a better way.There must be some way of writing a regular expression which should match upto the nth(say 5th or 6th)'bad' in the above expression.What would be the regular expression in that case.

Thanks monks for all your wisdom.

Best Regards,
Gyatso

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