in reply to RegEx for the same character repeating N times

/(\w)\1{9,}/ should do the trick.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Update: Sorry, forgot about the "or more", so added the ','.

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Re: Re: RegEx for the same character repeating N times
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2002 at 18:26 UTC
    Thank you. That works.
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