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Old Feb 1st, 2006, 10:09 AM   #1
ktsirig
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'group' matches?

Hi all!

I have a string :

$seq="IIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMIIIMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMIIIMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMIIIMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMI";

and I want to find all groups of MMMMMM. I don't want to find only every position in the string that has 'M',
i.e. pos6, pos7, pos8, pos9 etc but I want to have something like:

1st group : pos 7-15
2nd group : pos 23-34
3rd group : pos 45-55

etc
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