Re^3: Double check for positions

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in thread Double check for positions

I mean that your search pattern GCTTCTTGC only appears once in AGCTTCTTGCGCTTCTT. If you think it appears twice, you are mistaken.

The pos reset is needed in case there are overlapping pattern matches (which is what I've taken your question to be about, despite the sample data). In that case the pos marker needs to be backtracked to one place after the start of the last match to cope with that.

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Re^4: Double check for positions by bisimen (Acolyte) on Oct 18, 2017 at 13:35 UTC
Oh yeah, I forgot to remove the one "GC" is my example input... sorry.	[reply]
Re^5: Double check for positions by soonix (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2017 at 13:38 UTC
plus add it in the end, as your search pattern ends in 'GC', too	[reply]

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