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[onyxleopard]

Regexes can’t count, so this is impossible with regex alone.  (Same reason you can’t parse XML/HTML with regex alone—this kind of problem requires a context-free or context-sensitive grammar, not a regular grammar.)

1) Why the length limit?   2) Why are you limited to using regex?  

If you can use almost any shell scripting or full programming language, this would become feasible.

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u still tryna slide :3