Re: string buffer needs / string find

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> This is a variant of 'string.find()' with a starting place (probably, 
> range?) within a string.  Allows me to look for HTML tags etc. within a 
> huge all-in-one string, without creating an awful lot of intermediate 
> substrings.
>
> Current implementation:    using 'string.find' and 'string.sub'
>
>     -----
>     -- [start_int, stop_int [,capture ...]]= string.findfrom( str, start_int, pattern_str )
>     --
how does that differ from string.find(str,pattern,start_int) ? (Lua 5.0)
Adrian