I'm currently facing the problem that I want to match a character (%) x times but not more than that at the start of a line. My initial thought was to do this:

^%{1,6}

but this matches %%%%%%%

Is there a way to not make it match at all if the maximum is reached?

CodePudding user response：

You can use

^%{1,6}(?!%)

See the .NET regex demo.

Details:

• ^ - start of string
• %{1,6} - one to six occurrences of a % char
• (?!%) - a negative lookahead that fails the match if there is a % char immediately on the right.