Help with RegEx?

SparkyGuy writes:

> It turns out that simple range expressions are not supported in this (very)
> limited set of RegEx:
>
> "\{m,n\} Matches the preceding element at least m and not more than n times.
> For example, a\{3,5\} matches only "aaa", "aaaa", and "aaaaa". ***This is not
> found in a few, older instances of regular expressions.***"
> (Emphasis mine.)
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#POSIX>

Have you tried using PCRE?

<http://pcre.org/>

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