From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T05:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Question: Checking for [/joe] pairs

The problem is that the Regexp is not anchored to the start and ends of 
the string.

/^(?!\[joe\])*.?(\[joe\].+?\[\\joe\]){1,3}(?!\[joe\])*.?$/

Joe Peck wrote:
> Daniel Finnie wrote:
>> Why are you doing /[\s\d\w]+?/?  Just use /.+?/.
>>
>> Dan
> 
> Good point.  I was using .+? earlier, but thought that might be part of 
> my problem.  It seems to accept @x even if it contains more than 3 
> [joe][/joe] pairs.
>