Re: string.gsub - possible enhancement

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Mark Edgar wrote:

> For an arbitrarily complicated pattern, this function will do what you 
> want:
[snip]
Thanks for the excellent code which I intend to make use of. Your 
solution is in fact more generic than that I was proposing. But still, 
it'd be nice to have this functionality "out of the box".

Yet another thing that I miss in string.gsub is the ability to break the 
process after arbitrary match (when the `repl' function returns some 
dedicated value that means "no further replaces are needed").

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Shmuel