Find all matching regex patterns and index of the match in the string

Question

I want to find /AA/ pattern in AA-AA-AA subject string. I need to get the matching string and the position (index) of the match.

I have loo

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/mplungjan/MNXvQ/

I think this is easier to grasp

var str = "AAbAAcAAd"
var re = /(AA)/gi;
var t="",cnt=0;
while ((result=re.exec(str))!=null) {
    document.write((cnt++)+":"+result[1]+"
")        
}

re.lastIndex contains the positions each time