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