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On 04/20/2016 08:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Now I want to group subsequences. For example, I have:
>
> "ABCABCABCDEABCDEFABCABCABCB"
>
> and I want to group it into repeating subsequences. I can see two ways to
> group it:
>
> ABC ABC ABCDE ABCDE F ABC ABC ABC B
>
> giving counts:
>
> (ABC) count = 2
> (ABCDE) count = 2
> F count = 1
> (ABC) count = 3
> B repeats 1 time

or

ABC ABC ABC D E A B C D E F ABC ABC B

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~Ethan~