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We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ";" delimiter) is, eg, exactly 5 lower case characters

awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file 

... doesn't work.  

Suggestions?

thanks
Len