Finding the indexes of multiple/overlapping matching substrings

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Try gregexpr with perl=TRUE and use perl regular expressions with look-ahead assertions (see ?regex):

gregexpr("(?=CC)","CCCGTGCC",perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] 1 2 7
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0 0

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