I am trying to debug someone else's code and I am stuck with a regex issue. I have a textarea and I am running the regex to limit it to 1100 words. The regex she wrote seems to pick up when the 1100 limit is reached, however does not stop the user from entering more than 1100 characters. First can someone tell me exactly what I have here: 
validation-regex="(?s)^.{0,1100}$

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I have a pretty good idea of what this does, but I am gray on how all the symbols are working together. Second what is the best way to go about putting in a stop on the textarea to not allow the user to enter more than 1100 chars? Thanks

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