Hello Tom, Friday, April 23, 2004, 3:42:57 PM, you wrote:
TR> $string = "hello world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how arrrrrrrrrrrrrrre you today?????!!"; TR> if(preg_match_all('/(\w)\1{4,}|(\W)\2{4,}/',$string,$match)){ TR> echo "too many repeated characters<br>"; TR> print_r($match); TR> } TR> That will catch everything, except numbers, that is repeated 4 or more TR> times. Absolutely perfect - thank you! -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php