an interesting challenge.

[Darrin Chandler]

Kevin Brown wrote:

>> egrep -i '^[^e]*(e[^e]*){3}[^e]*$'
>>
>> Not only is it slightly shorter and more readable, but it's a lot 
>> easier change it to search for of 'e' exactly n times.
>
>
> If I'm reading the regexp correctly you are excluding words that start 
> with e or contain more than one e in a row.


Read it some more ;)

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