Regular expression limit string size

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Sprinkle in some positive lookahead to test for the total length of the string by adding

(?=.{3,16}$)

at the start of the regex. The final regex is then:

/^(?=.{3,16}$)[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:_[a-z0-9]+)*$/

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