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1. repeating multiple characters regex    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way using a regex to match a repeating set of characters? For example: ABCABCABCABCABC ABC{5} I know that's wrong. But is there anything to match that effect? Update: Can you use nested capture ...

2. regex error - nothing to repeat    stackoverflow.com

When i use this expression:

re.sub("([^\s\w])(\s*\1)+","\\1","...")

    re.sub(r"([^\s\w])(\s*\1)+","\\1","...")

raise error, ...

3. How to remove repeating non-adjacent string    stackoverflow.com

Given lines that look like the following:
Blah \cite[9.1173]{Joyce:1986aa}\autocite[42]{Kenner:1970ab}\autocite[108]{Hall:1960aa} bbb.\n
I’d like to remove the second (and any subsequent) occurrence of \autocite, resulting in the following:
Blah \autocite[9.1173]{Joyce:1986aa}[42]{Kenner:1970ab}[108]{Hall:1960aa} bbb.\n I’m struggling to express ...

4. Using a regular expression to replace upper case repeated letters in python with a single lowercase letter    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to replace any instances of uppercase letters that repeat themselves twice in a string with a single instance of that letter in a lower case. I am using ...

5. python regex for repeating string    stackoverflow.com

I am wanting to verify and then parse this string (in quotes):

string = "start: c12354, c3456, 34526; other stuff that I don't care about"
//Note that some codes begin with 'c'

6. repeating previous regex    stackoverflow.com

I have a line (and a arbitrary number of them) 0 1 1 75 55 I can get it by doing

x = ...

7. Only extract those words from a list that include no repeating letters, using regex    stackoverflow.com

I have a large word list file with one word per line. I would like to filter out the words with repeating alphabets.

INPUT:
  abducts
  abe
  abeam
  ...

8. Cucumber Regex: How do I match a repeating pattern of comma separated value pairs?    stackoverflow.com

I have the following strings:

I submit the following values: username 'foo', password 'bar'
I submit the following values: username 'foo', password 'bar','foo', profile 'bar', extra 'something'

9. RegExp match repeated characters    stackoverflow.com

For example I have string:

 aacbbbqq

 (aa, c, bbb, qq)  

10. python limit repeating letters    stackoverflow.com

What would be the best way to limit repeating letters down to 1 and 2 such as:
appppppppple => aple and apple
bbbbbeeeeeer => ber, beer, bber, bbeer Right now, I ...

11. Regular expresion capturing entire match consisting of repeated groups    stackoverflow.com

I've looked thrould the forums but could not find exactly how exactly to solve my problem. Let's say I have a string like the following:

UDK .636.32/38.082.4454.2(575.3)

12. repeating regex's on files    python-forum.org

13. SOLVED: Regex: repeating a matching pattern    python-forum.org

def thousandsep(n): n = str(n) n, sign = n.startswith('-') and (n[1:], '-') or (n, '') s = '' while len(n) > 3: s = ',' + n[-3:] + s ...