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		madcaptenor 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: California is nearly out of license plate numbers I'm wondering how frequently this is just not possible. For example QZV would fail: `grep "q[a-z]z[a-z]v" words` returns nothing.

brulard 9 months ago [–]

OP didn't mention a limitation that it has to start and end with these letters.

`Qazvin` is apparently a city in Iran

madcaptenor 9 months ago | [–]

For me that regex didn’t have that limitation. And my word list didn’t have Qazvin. Still there must be triplets of letters that don’t match any word.

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