RegExp pattern match question: matching 3 consecutive characters

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I need to write a regular expression to match a password field. The password cannot have 3 consecutive identical characters. I tried to use the expression: (.)\1
This only matched two characters.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

-tl

 

[ElgisRamon]

Try [tt](.)\1\1[/tt] then!
I hope it works...
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