Re: Missing string.find functionality in Lua 5.1

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> You can use empty captures with string.match to know where you are.
> string.match(s, "()pat()") is almost equivalent to string.find(s, "pat").
> (Usually you can capture more useful and efficient positions.)

Oh, now I see it's possible, though (IMHO) it seems much less elegant
than it used to be with old good string.find.

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Shmuel