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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:17:19 -0600
Subject: Re: + in regular expression
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:01 PM, contro opinion <contropinion@gmail.com> wrote:
> why the  "\s{6}+"  is not a regular pattern?


Use a group: "(?:\s{6})+"