From: Jurgen Haan on
Dan N wrote:
> Sorry, this may not be the best newsgroup, but it is the most Linux savvy
> of any I know.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line with more
> than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?
>
> Dan

Instead of using constructions to match for multiple occurrences of a
character, you should try matching for that character in a line and use
the designated regexp function to return a result count.

But since this is very very basic regexp material, I suggest you read up
on regular expressions (google) before asking stuff on (the wrong)
newsgroups.

-R-