RE: OT: Quickie RegEx question for gurus.

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Hi Kieran,

Quoting "Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>:
> You are pretty close:

thanks

> m/^\w{3,}$/s
>
> which will only match alphanumeric strings of three or more
characters.

no cigar I'm afraid - I get exactly the same results :(
I'm actually doing it in javascript under IE - I didn't like to say before
in
case I frightened you *nix guys away :D  The regex syntax is the same
though.
The matching works fine as long as there are no carriage returns in the
text
(which is a multi line input box in a web page).....

thanks,

Tony



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