Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Try this: > > >> vec <- c("aaaa", "baaa", "bbaa", "bbba", "baamm", "aa") >> > > >> grep("^(?!(.)\\1{1,}$).*(.)\\2{1,}$", vec, perl = TRUE) >>
or even grep("^(?!(.)\\1+$).*(.)\\2+$", vec, perl = TRUE) vQ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.