Forums Scripts & Popups Regex ignore trailing space

Testing some regex out, and can't seem to get my pattern match to ignore the space between capture groups.

Pattern i am using: ((.{2,}?)\2{4,})

if i enter: "the quick brown fox jumps over? " and put it in 5 times, and the 6th message does not contain a trailing space, it seems to not match the pattern.

Thanks!

I think this is what you want:

((.{2,}?)(\s*\2){4,})

And it's nearly identical to what you wanted here: https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/255708/

That's where i made the mistake, i didn't put parenthesis near the \2.

There is a slight problem, where putting these parenthesis in cause a 3rd capture group to be evaluated. Getting some weird behavior now.

I moved it and it seems to be working in the debugger, but still capturing a 3rd group, which is a single white space by itself.

You can use (?:regex) for a non capturing group.

Thanks wims! Now when looking at a regex builder, it appears to be capturing correctly, however my do action is not working.

Yes, as Loki12583 said in that link, the comma seperate arguments here, put the whole pattern in a local %variable.

Thanks guys!