repeating a section of a regular expression?

Question

I\'m having to parse a text dump of a spreadsheet. I have a regular expression that correctly parses each line of the data, but it\'s rather long. It\'s basically just mat

Answer 1

(\s+(\w*\.*\w*);){12}

The {n} is a "repeat n times"

if you want "12 - 13" times,

(\s+(\w*\.*\w*);){12,13}

if you want "12+" times,

(\s+(\w*\.*\w*);){12,}