Need help building a regexp pattern

[Theodor-Iulian Ciobanu <tciobanu@...>]

Hello Lua,

  Most of the questions I asked here are related to parsing of logs, and this one makes no exception. I'm blaming it on me still not having a good grasp of the language, but I do love its speed and versatility. ('Cause I don't think I ever mentioned how much I *enjoy* working with lua - great job, everybody!)

  To get back on topic, I have a log with lines that would match either the pattern "(.)%s*(.-)%s*(.+)" or just "(.-)%s*(.+)". What I'd like to be able to do is build a single pattern with three captures, the first one being nil for the second type of strings. Is it possible? (Currently I'm doing a string.match with the first pattern and if that fails then I do a second one with the latter pattern - and this is the optimization I'd like to do, have only one string.match())

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