Re: help with regexp

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 19-Oct-05, at 11:16 AM, Walter Cruz wrote:

> :P
>
>  Very fine and short code! (I laugh a lot when I saw it)
>
>  Just one more question:
>
>  That kind of construction   "(.-)" in a pattern is lua specifc ?

In pcre you would write (.*?)

But it is not part of posix standard regular expression patterns.