Regex in JavaScript to reject three consecutive characters

Question

I'm new to Regex and it would be great if someone can help me write a JS regex to reject 3 consecutively repeated characters.

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fernando Jan 24 13 at 2:34 am

1 answer

Barmar · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-24T02:48:13+0000

Regular expression:

/(.)\1\1/

will match a string containing three repeated characters.