Network Intrusion Detection Systems use regular expression to represent malicious packets and hardware-based pattern matching is required for fast deep packet inspection. Although hardware architectures for implementing constraint repetition operators such as {10} were recently proposed, they have some limitation. In this paper, we propose hardware architecture supporting constraint repetitions of general regular expression sub-patterns with lower logic complexity. The subpatterns supported by the proposed contraint repetition architecture include general regular expression patterns as well as a single character and fixed length patterns. With the proposed building block, we can implement more efficiently regular expression pattern matching hardwares.