How to find indices of all occurrences of one string in another in JavaScript?

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var str = "I learned to play the Ukulele in Lebanon."
var regex = /le/gi, result, indices = [];
while ( (result = regex.exec(str)) ) {
    indices.push(result.index);
}

UPDATE

I failed to spot in the original question that the search string needs to be a variable. I’ve written another version to deal with this case that uses indexOf, so you’re back to where you started. As pointed out by Wrikken in the comments, to do this for the general case with regular expressions you would need to escape special regex characters, at which point I think the regex solution becomes more of a headache than it’s worth.

function getIndicesOf(searchStr, str, caseSensitive) {
    var searchStrLen = searchStr.length;
    if (searchStrLen == 0) {
        return [];
    }
    var startIndex = 0, index, indices = [];
    if (!caseSensitive) {
        str = str.toLowerCase();
        searchStr = searchStr.toLowerCase();
    }
    while ((index = str.indexOf(searchStr, startIndex)) > -1) {
        indices.push(index);
        startIndex = index + searchStrLen;
    }
    return indices;
}

var indices = getIndicesOf("le", "I learned to play the Ukulele in Lebanon.");

document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = indices + "";
<div id="output"></div>

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