Java regex doubt?

I have a string by as follows:
String name = "aaaaaaaaaahgcnjcdcd";I am trying to validate the above string. When the number of "a" in the string excceds 5 and above, I need to throw an error. I tried as follos:
if (name.matches("A{5,}")){
system.out.println("There is an error");
}The above code works only if my name is "aaaaaaaaaaaa" (contains only more than 5 "a"s)and it is not working when name is like "aaaaaaaaaahgcnjcdcd". Can anyone give suggestion so that I will be able to thrw an error if there are more than 5 continous "a" s along with other charactes as "aaaaaaaaaahgcnjcdcd".

cotton.m wrote:
For the regex way you need optional wildcards on either side. And sabre or uncle_alice are likely to yell at me for suggesting indexOf so maybe just do that instead.Far from it. If all the OP is interested in is a run of 5 or more 'a' chars then indexOf() is perfect BUT if he wants 5 or more of run of any of a possible set or chars then regex fits the problem much better. Something like
boolean isValid = "your string xxxxx possibly containing 5 or more of a sequence of x,y or z".matches(".*([xyz])\\1{4,}.*");it is possible to refine this so that there is much less backtracking but until I better understand the OP's requirement ...

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