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PASSWORD RESTRICTIONS:

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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HIGHLIGHTED MATCHES:

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"Hello.. World.."
"Hello... World..."     // this is correct
"Hello.... World...."
"Hello..... World....."
Sample text for testing:
. .. ... .... .....

RESULTS:

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Execution Time(sec.):
0.000017

Raw Match Pattern:
\.{4,}|(?<!\.)\.{2}(?!\.)

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("\\.{4,}|(?<!\\.)\\.{2}(?!\\.)");
  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++;
    }
  }
}

$matches Array:
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => ..
            [1] => ..
            [2] => ....
            [3] => ....
            [4] => .....
            [5] => .....
            [6] => ..
            [7] => ....
            [8] => .....
        )

)