Re: Invalid Capture Index

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> As far as I know, the only cause of this 
> error is capture indices that are out-of-bound:
>
> a,b,c,d = string.find("my dog's name is skip", "([\"'])(.-)%3") --error!

Another cause is using forward reference instead of back reference:

  print(string.find("aa", "(a)%1")) --> fine
  print(string.find("aa", "%1(a)")) --> error

> Perhaps I was too specific for my own good, and should have just plainly 
> asked what causes this error. : (

This would be much better, because the example in the original post was 
presented as the actual code causing the error:

> My problem is this works fine for English, but when I use this for
                ^^^^                                        ^^^^
> a German locale I receive the error: Invalid Capture Index. I'm
> really confused about what is going wrong here, mostly because I
> don't understand this error.

Sorry for nitpicking.

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Shmuel