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I am looking for simple way to use regex and catch variant of word with simplest format. For example, the 5 variants of the word below.

hike hhike hiike hikke hikkee

Using something similar to the format below...

[([a-zA-Z]){4,}]

Thanks

Ron AndKim Stengel
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    You will need to better define what you mean by variant. Show some samples which would and should not match. – 0xCAFEBABE Nov 22 '13 at 10:08

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Are you looking for something like /h+i+k+e+/?

Meaning:

  • The literal h character repeated 1 to infinity times
  • The literal i character repeated 1 to infinity times
  • The literal k character repeated 1 to infinity times
  • The literal e character repeated 1 to infinity times

DEMO

If each character can maximum be there twice, you can use /h{1,2}i{1,2}k{1,2}e{1,2}/ meaning "present 1 or 2 times".

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This is more of a soundex kind of problem I think:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/392236/514463

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DavidC
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You probably cannot solve this generically (i.e. for any word) under standard regex syntax.

For a given word, as others have pointed out, it is trivial.

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