regular expression to match any string but at least 3 characters

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Published on 2010-04-07T05:53:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 6:03 UTC
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sorry am not a regex expert. but my request is simple, i need to match any string that has at least 3 or more characters that are matching

So for instance, we have the string "hello world" and matching it with the following:

"he" => false // only 2 characters
"hel" => true // 3 characters match found

thansk in advance.

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