shrotening length of same characters words

[Aircut]

i need to find any words (or punctuation) that are composed of more than 4 letters of the same character and shorten them to 4

that is

AAAAAAAAAAA -> AAAA
???????????????? -> ????
........................... -> ....
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -> Brrr

any help would be appriciated

[DataMystic Support]

Use a perl regex search/replace

Search for

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([a-z\?\.]){5,}?

Replace with:

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$1$$1$$1$$1$

[Aircut]

thanks but it doesnt work, i created the rule for perl pattern search/replace

in the trial box i entered
............................
no changes....

[DataMystic Support]

Check for extra white space or carriage returns at the end of the search phrase.