[Rd] gregexpr (PR#9965)

[Greg Snow]

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
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> dolanp at science.oregonstate.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:36 AM
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> Subject: [Rd] gregexpr (PR#9965)
> 
> Full_Name: Peter Dolan
> Version: 2.5.1
> OS: Windows
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.193.227.43)
> 
> 
> 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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