On Tuesday 04 May 2010 14:39:10 Simon Elliot wrote: > Ahhh... if only it were that simple! Thanks for the thought, but the > regex: "\w{3}" would mean any 3 alphanumeric word characters, not the same > character repeated 3 times. So it would recognise "abc" "iou "imo" etc..., > as well as 'aaa', 'bbb'. whoops, you're right! but you can still do (\w)\1{3} i suppose :P -- glen -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist