[Israel.pm] matching in line (fwd) on behalf of Ernst, Yehuda.B

[Yosef Meller]

> From: "Ernst, Yehuda" <yernst at nds.com>

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I need to read a text file line by line and check every line if it has 5 
> same chars together in it.
> 
> if the file looks like this
> 
> lksdjvhhgaeifgas;dfjnafb
> dlsjfhgq30874riwufh;wdofia
> jsg55555dsbafoiewury20348r7y2-3495
> 
> only line 3 will be printed
> 
> is there a fast way using pattern match to do it?
> 

perl -ne 'print if /\d{5}/'

Is this what you wanted?


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