# arpad@xxxxxxxxxxx / 2007-02-09 12:44:40 +0000:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >This shouldn't do too much backtracking, try it out:
> >
> >"*8*" => /^(?:\d*8\d*){4}$/
> >
> >
> The {4} in there repeats the subpattern 4 times, rather than limiting it
> to 4 characters.
OMG. Sorry, haven't got enough sleep.
> I really can't think of an elegant to do what you ask with regex - why
> limit yourself to regex anyway?
> It would be far simpler to just convert * to .* and check the length
> separately with strlen(), plus if you check the length first then you
> don't need regex at all if it fails.
Yup.
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