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Allow only these characters:  (any character)  ]
At Least  Total Characters
No More Than   Total Characters
At Least  Lowercase Characters (a-z)
At Least  Uppercase Characters (A-Z)
At Least  Numeric Characters (0-9)
At Least  Special Characters in [^a-zA-Z0-9]  ]
Disallow sequential alphanumeric sequences of or more (i.e. 123... abc... ABC...)
Disallow repeating characters of or more (i.e. 11... aa... AA... %%...)

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Execution Time(sec.):
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Raw Match Pattern:
\"example\"(.+?)}

Match Pattern Explanation:
The regular expression:

(?-imsx:\"example\"(.+?)})

matches as follows:
  
NODE                     EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx:                 group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
                         (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
                         matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
                         normally):
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  \"                       '"'
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  example                  'example'
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  \"                       '"'
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  (                        group and capture to \1:
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    .+?                      any character except \n (1 or more times
                             (matching the least amount possible))
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  )                        end of \1
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  }                        '}'
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)                        end of grouping
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Java Code Example:

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
class Module1{
  public static void main(String[] asd){
  String sourcestring = "source string to match with pattern";
  Pattern re = Pattern.compile("\\\"example\\\"(.+?)}");
  Matcher m = re.matcher(sourcestring);
  int mIdx = 0;
    while (m.find()){
      for( int groupIdx = 0; groupIdx < m.groupCount()+1; groupIdx++ ){
        System.out.println( "[" + mIdx + "][" + groupIdx + "] = " + m.group(groupIdx));
      }
      mIdx++;
    }
  }
}


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