Re: [R] how to count the total number of (INCLUDING overl apping) occurrences of a substring within a string ?

[Hans W Borchers]

Hans W Borchers <hwborchers <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>

Sorry, my fault. I forgot the brackets. With

    gregexpr("(.)(?=.\\1)", "ababacababab", perl = TRUE)

it works as you suggested.

Thanks
Hans Werner

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