$re = '/(\w{2}).*?(\1)/i';
$str = 'This is a repeated repeated word.zz zz zz
How would you find pairs of letters that occur twice in a string using regex with Python?
I want to iterate through a list of strings, find the ones that have repeating pairs of letters, and put them into a list. The letters don\'t need to be the same, the pair just has to repeat, though the letters can be the same.
Ex:
this one has xx twice so I want to keep this string:
xxhgfhdeifhjfrikfoixx
this one would be kept as well, because hd is repeated:
kwofhdbugktrkdidhdnbk
The best I got was to find the pairs: ([a-z][a-z])\\1|([a-z])\\2
I need to find which pairs repeat in the string.';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
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