If you want all the matches (including overlaps) then you could try one
of these:
> gregexpr("(?=abab)","ababab",perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] 1 3
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0
> gregexpr("ab(?=ab)","ababab",perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] 1 3
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 2 2
The book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl has a lot of
detail on the hows and whys of regular expression matching.
--
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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>
> gregexpr does not find all matching substrings if the
> substrings overlap:
>
> > gregexpr("abab","ababab")
> [[1]]
> [1] 1
> attr(,"match.length")
> [1] 4
>
> It does work correctly in Version 2.3.1 under linux.
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