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next if $pass =~ /(.)\1{2}/;

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No addition + or trailing /g. That would do things in triplicate.

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Re^2: How to match repeating characters
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 09, 2010 at 22:44 UTC

    That would things in triplicate.

    While if //g is quite bad — it can lead to weird errors down the line — it doesn't triplicate anything.

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