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There is no way to define that pattern in Lua. What I do is to use
an approximation and solve the details inside a "replace" function:

  string.gsub(s, "^%-?%d+(%.?%d?%d?)$", function (p, s)
    if s == "" or string.len(s) == 3 then ...

-- Roberto