Matching only the first three numbers of a string in ksh [duplicate] - shell

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VARIABLE=`grep PortNumber` testfile.txt | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'`
echo $VARIABLE
33111
I want to do a check to ensure the first 2 numbers of the variable are the digit '3' only.
How can I do this using a standard ksh script?
EDIT:
I think I have it in the following, does this look correct?
echo $VARIABLE | egrep -q '^[3]{2}'

You can do :
echo $VARIABLE | grep -E "^3+{2}"

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