I'm trying to write some regex to catch instances of characters that are
repeated more than x times in a string and replace them with a single
occurence of the same character. So far I've failed :)
For example, if x was 10 and my string was:
"this is myyyy striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing _________________ and I want my
striiiing to change"
then I would like my string to become:
"this is myyyy string _ and I want my striiiing to change"
I've been trying combinations of the dot to match any character, curly
brackets to specify the number of charcters {10} and backreferences to try
and catch the character but I haven't even got close.
Any one got any ideas? Is this even possible?
Thanks for any help.
Gareth
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