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need to create regex which match duplicate chacter in a word

annie_perl
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Aug 19, 2009, 10:48 PM

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need to create regex which match duplicate chacter in a word	Can't Post

HI ,

I have an array and i need create a regex which will match any word that contains a double
#letter, for example "book" has a double "o" and "feed" has a double "e".

Here is the sytax i have created to check only 'a' and 'r' character. what i needed is what is the regex to check the duplication characters from a-z in 2 or more characters. I tried [(a-z){2,}]

your help is highly appreciated!

my $value;
my $output;

foreach $value(@string){

$output=($value=~m/(a{2,}|r{2,})/g);
if($output){print $`,$1,$'."\n"; }
}

annie_perl
Novice

Aug 19, 2009, 11:01 PM

Post #2 of 3 (5503 views)

Re: [aan] need to create regex which match duplicate chacter in a word [In reply to]	Can't Post

Basically i need a short regex instead of the long regex as following:

(a{2,}|b{2,}|c{2,}|d{2,}|e{2,}|f{2,}|g{2,}|h{2,}|
i{2,}|j{2,}|k{2,}|l{2,}|m{2,}|n{2,}|o{2,}|p{2,}|
q{2,}|r{2,}|s{2,}|t{2,}|u{2,}|v{2,}|w{2,}|x{2,}|
y{2,}|z{2,})

KevinR
Veteran

Aug 20, 2009, 9:38 AM

Post #3 of 3 (5498 views)

Re: [annie_perl] need to create regex which match duplicate chacter in a word [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

@w = qw (these those that book took crook feed weed seed you me them); 
for (@w) { 
    print "$_\n" if /([a-z])\1/; 
}

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