Regex match any character 5 or more times

Question

I have this regex pattern:

^[.]{5,}$

Which I want to return true if the tested string has 5 or more characters.

I.E it'll only return false if the string contains 4 or less characters.

At the moment it seems to return true regardless of the number of characters and I can't see why.

Answer 1

You want

^.{5,}$

But really - just use the built-in string length function of the language of your choice

Answer 2

Try this regex:

 .{5,}

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