in reply to Regex help

Have you tried captures and backreferences? 

#   A    B     C     D    E   C  F    G
m/[a-z][a-z]([a-z])[a-z][a-z]\1[a-z][a-z]/

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Re^2: Regex help
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 23, 2007 at 02:17 UTC
    Thanks ArchFool.

    I had something like yours. It produced results with other repeated symbols (letters) than the ones at positions 3 and 6.

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