On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, MySQL Student wrote:

I'd like to create a rule that matches a specific letter and up to 5
spaces after it, repeated ten times. I'm thinking something like this:

/s\ {5}o\ {5}n\ {5}i\ {5}c\ {5}\ m\ {5}e\ {5}d\ {5}i\ {5}a/i

\s is the proper way to represent whitespace.

{5} is exactly 5. 1-5 would be {1,5}, and 0-5 would be {,5}

I'm still learning regex's, so hopefully this isn't too far off. The
opportunities for rules are coming faster than my ability to learn.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

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