(In perl -de 17:)
DB<6> $x = 'helloworldhellohellohihellohiworldhi'
DB<7> print "$1\n" while $x =~ /(\w+)(?=.*\1.*\1)/g
hello
o
l
hello
h
l
l
o
hi
h
l
The single letters appear, of course, since they're repeated more than once. We can fix that by requiring \1 to be at least 2 characters long...
DB<8> print "$1\n" while $x =~ /(\w{2,})(?=.*\1.*\1)/g
hello
hello
hi
Of course it still finds `world', which appears 4 times.
To autogenerate the regexp:
sub repeat_finder_re {
my $n = shift;
'(\w{2,})(?=' . ('.*\\1'x($n-1)) . ')'
}
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