RE: Stumped on a string patterns example

Hi

Thanks for all the help guys, I went with the solution

local stripped = input:gsub("[\\\"']+", "")

I had almost come up with that myself, the mistake I made was with all the pesky escape triple blackslashes I hadnt got that quite correct

Regards Geoff

> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:10:37 +0200
> From: dirk.laurie@gmail.com
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Re: Stumped on a string patterns example
>
> 2012/10/9 Jeff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk>:
>
> >
> > I have a string that maybe in any of these forms. I will omit the outer Lua
> > string speechmarks for clarity
> >
> > Fred
> > "Fred"
> > 'Fred'
> > \"Fred\"
> > \'Fred\'
> >
> > I need to strip any speechmark and backslash characters and just return the
> > string Fred as a Lua string. The name inside the speechmarks could have
> > spaces or numbers in it just to complicate things a bit
> >
>
> pat="(%p*)([%w ]*)(%p*)"
> start, name, stop = str:match(pat)
> if start~=stop then error "mismatched delimiters" end
>
> This will of course also allow *Fred* etc. Is that a problem?
>