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!
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Best regards,
Richard Davey
http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html
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