Re: Patterns problem

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:49:53PM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> 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 ...

Looks like I'm going to have to use something like a v8 regexp
interface, or perhaps a pcre one.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

D.

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