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How can I find occurences of same subsequent characters in a string with a regular expression or function?
Example:
I am leet and I have a three pizzas. That noob right there has only one pizza. Poor boy.
You can use a backreference:
Change
\1to\1+if you want to find sequences of length two or more.Note that the syntax can vary depending on the regular expression engine you are using.