From: Ralph Shnelvar Date: 2009-11-27T04:51:02+09:00 Subject: Pattern match to fail if two periods in a row Ok ... I really tried. And I used http://rubular.com/ (really nice) And I read and reread the pickaxe book section on regular expressions. In other words ... I tried. So .. How does one create an expression that fails if there are two or more periods (e.g. "..") in a row?