A better bet is to generate a string from that array and insert it into the regex pattern. I did this below with the string $chars6_class. Note that I escaped many of the symbols which have special meaning in regex and perl, though I didn't really double check I got all the right ones.

Then I use the back reference, \1, to look for two more occurrences of what I just found.

my @chars6 = ('0'..'9', 'a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '!','\@', '#', 
  '\$', '\%','^', '&', '\*', '\(', '\)', '<', '>', '\?',
  '`', '\+', '\/', '\[', '\{', '\]','\}', '\|', '=','_',
  '~', ',', '\.');

my $chars6_class = '[' . join( '', @chars6) . ']';

if ($password=~ m/($chars6_class)\1{2}/)
{
  # regenerate password
}

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Further, I would take a look at the posix character classes to see if there is already a set of what you are looking for. My guess would be that you could just use the below regex instead of dealing with an array of characters.

m/([[:alnum:]]|[[:punct:]])\1{2}/

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In reply to Re^3: Removing similar characters by Kc12349
in thread Removing similar characters by rspishock

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