Hi all,

I'd like to do a regex match using perl.

Say I want to search strings containing more than 2 but not more than 3 of a range of characters "ARKYGZX", any letters can be repeats (i.e. AAA, RR, XXK etc) or scattered in the string (i.e. AgoodApeople, XgoodpeopleK, etc), so that as an example, the following strings should be print out as output:

AAgoodpeople

AgoodApeople

XgoodpeopleK

but "ARKYgoodpeopleGZX" shouldn't.

my code is as:

if ($_ =~ /[ARKYGZX]{2,3}/){
    print $_, "\n";
}

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But I think this only works if any of the character are repeats, such as "AAgoodpeople", for strings AgoodpeopleA", or "AXgoodpeople" or "AgoodpeopleX", this code wouldn't work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

In reply to match a range of characters multiple times but they might scattered in the string by lrl1997

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