Re: Problem matching on [.]

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 15/05/2007, at 9:37 AM, David Burgess wrote:

> What I grapple with is
>
> > print(string.match("x","[f]"))
> nil
>
> > print(string.match("x","[f]*"))
>
> (empty string)

Whilst it may not look intuitive, you have indeed matched zero (or  
more) occurrences of "f", as requested.

- Nick