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ViewsFinding consecutive characters but ignore space & case?
I'm looking to match the following strings so that I can later truncate them from the string in JS. For ex: matched: i like eeeting pie and a a a a a bananas. matched: My name iIIs John Doe and A a A a AA AAA I'm cool.
This is the regex I currently have, but it doesn't match if there is a space in between or if there are more than 3 consecutive letters:
(.)\1\1
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Juan Pablo Isaza
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You can use
/(\S)(?:\s*\1){2,}/gi
/\b(\S)(?:\s*\1){2,}/gi
If you need to make sure you only start matching at the word boundary, you need to use the second regex.
See the JavaScript demo:
const text = "i like eeeting pie and a a a a a bananas. My name iIIs John Doe and A a A a AA AAA I'm cool.";
const re = /(\S)(?:\s*\1){2,}/gi;
document.body.innerHTML = text.replace(re, '<b>$&</b>')
// Second regex demo:
document.body.innerHTML += "<br/>" + text.replace(/\b(\S)(?:\s*\1){2,}/gi, '<b>$&</b>')The regex has the i case insensitive flag and matches
(\S)- Group 1: any non-whitespace char(?:\s*\1){2,}- two or more occurrences of\s*- zero or more whitespaces\1- the value of Group 1.
See the regex scheme:
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