mirrorbird (01:44:56)
still won't work if the ".." is extreme start or end (my monkey thought is: just add a space at each end before regexing. but you don't have that option)

mirrorbird (01:44:28)
[^\.](\.{2})[^\.] this one will capture the dots you dislike

lenny (01:44:22)
ok, i see, i just tried it with a single line: "it is a nice car.."

mirrorbird (01:42:08)
also, it works in middle, but maybe not if ".." is the very start/end, so you may need to mess about with the terminators ^ and $. but this is good SO FAR...

mirrorbird (01:41:35)
as written, this will capture the two enclosing 'non-dot' characters, so you may need to include ( ) to show which bits you want

mirrorbird (01:40:10)
all right, you want sth like this: [^\.]\.{2}[^\.]

lenny (01:37:05)

mirrorbird (01:36:36)
patience, my tiny brain can do this.

mirrorbird (01:36:24)
apparently not, it's not working how i would expect.

mirrorbird (01:36:16)
im wondering if you can put a termination marker (^ start or $ end) in an alternation OR (like a|b|c)

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