Reading Time: 1 minutesMatch three-of-a-kind characters from a string in Python
Match three-of-a-kind characters from a string in Python
Write a Regular Expression in Python to match three-of-a-kind characters from a string containing characters other than a newline e.g. 'abc123abc123abc'.
Match three-of-a-kind characters from a string
sourceString = 'abc123abc123abc' |
matchObject = re.search(r'.*?(.).*?\1.*?\1', sourceString) |
print( matchObject.groups() ) |
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