Re: gsub strangeness

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

> Anchoring at the beginning works but anchoring at the end does not,
though.

Ah! Thanks for that, problem solved.

I was writing a wildcard match function, and in using anchoring it works
fine:

function match(str, pat)
    local s,n = gsub(str, "^" .. pat .. "$")
    return  s == "" and n == 1
end

Thanks!

Love, Light and Peace,
- Peter Loveday
Director of Development, eyeon Software