Regex: how to find two letters that are repeating at least 3 number of times?

Question

For example, I would like to find ty in:

erytypotym5ty    
etytyty    
koetymitywty

or il in:

keililmil    
ilwrilltyil5ile

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '20 at 05:29

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^.*(\w{2}).*\1.*\1.*$.

The two letters (also digits and _; you could replace \w with [a-zA-Z], if you don't want them) will be in group 1.

answered Nov 02 '20 at 05:29

Alexander Mashin

Thanks, it works and is even easy to modify with my little knowledge of regex :) – jikix Nov 02 '20 at 05:56

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