Regex matches any character 5 or more times

Question

I have this regex pattern:

^[.]{5,}$ 

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

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

Currently it returns true, regardless of the number of characters, and I do not understand why.

Answer 1

Do you want to

 ^.{5,}$ 

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

Answer 2

I think you do not need ^ and $. Try simply:

 .{5,} 

Answer 3

Try this regex:

  .{5,} 

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