Re: string.gsub - possible enhancement

[Mark Edgar <medgar@...>]

Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> Mark Edgar wrote:
>
> > For an arbitrarily complicated pattern, this function will do what you 
> > want:
> [snip]
> Thanks for the excellent code which I intend to make use of. Your 
> solution is in fact more generic than that I was proposing. But still, 
> it'd be nice to have this functionality "out of the box".
>
> Yet another thing that I miss in string.gsub is the ability to break the 
> process after arbitrary match (when the `repl' function returns some 
> dedicated value that means "no further replaces are needed").

To solve this, you could write a loop based on string.find, making use 
of its first two return values and its third parameter to find each 
match in turn.

					-Mark