The following regex worked properly. ... If there is a better way to do this ...

Even after adding (just for the heck of it) a closing  } brace, all I get is an infinite loop. What code are you running? 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $string=\"AAABBBCCCCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHHIII\";
 my @patterns=('BBB','DDD');
 my @index;
 foreach(@patterns){
 while($string=~m/\G([A-Z]{3})+?$_/g){
 push(@index,$-[2]);
 pos($string)=$-[2];
 print 0+@index; <STDIN>;
 }
 }
"
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...

Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)

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In reply to Re^3: Perl Regex Repeating Patterns by AnomalousMonk
in thread Perl Regex Repeating Patterns by Anonymous Monk

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