RegEx to find two or more consecutive chars
This should do the trick:
[a-zA-Z]{2,}
[a-zA-Z]{2,}
does not work for two or more identical consecutive characters. To do that, you should capture any character and then repeat the capture like this:
(.)\1
The parenthesis captures the . which represents any character and \1
is the result of the capture - basically looking for a consecutive repeat of that character. If you wish to be specific on what characters you wish to find are identical consecutive, just replace the "any character" with a character class...
([a-zA-Z])\1
Finds a consecutive repeating lower or upper case letter. Matches on abbc123
and not abc1223
. To allow for a space between them (i.e. a ab
), then include an optional space in the regex between the captured character and the repeat...
([a-z]A-Z])\s?\1
Personally I've used:
[0-9][0-9]+.
But the answer from Simon, is way better.