Re: Missing string.find functionality in Lua 5.1

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

PA wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2005, at 14:27, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
>
> > To get this functionality with Lua 5.1, one should use
> > 2 functions instead: string.find and string.match.
>
>
> Perhaps string.find() and string.sub()?
>
> E.g.:
>
> local aStart, anEnd = aContent:find( "%b<>", anIndex )
>
> if aStart ~= nil then
>     local aTag = aContent:sub( aStart, anEnd )
This doesn't give us captures.
So, string.match is still needed.
(Your example doesn't specify captures).

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Shmuel