gregexpr2: A replacement for R standard gregexpr function
Description
This is a replacement for the standard gregexpr function that
does exact matching only.
Standard gregexpr() misses matches when they are overlapping.
The gregexpr2 function finds all matches but it only works in "fixed"
mode i.e. for exact matching (regular expressions are not
supported).
Usage
gregexpr2(pattern, text)
Arguments
pattern
character string to be matched in the given character vector
text
a character vector where matches are sought
Value
A list of the same length as text each element of
which is an integer vector as in gregexpr,
except that the starting positions of all (even overlapping)
matches are given.
Note that, unlike gregexpr, gregexpr2 doesn't attach a "match.length"
attribute to each element of the returned list because, since it only works
in "fixed" mode, then all the matches have the length of the pattern.
Another difference with gregexpr is that with gregexpr2,
the pattern argument must be a single (non-NA, non-empty) string.