Re: extension to string.gmatch (structural regular expressions)

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Norman Ramsey wrote:
>   > for before, match in stringx.gmatch('Hello world', 'l', true) do
>       print(string.format('%q', before),
>             match and string.format('%q', match) or match)
>     end
>   "He"    "l"
>   ""      "l"
>   "o wor" "l"
>   "d"     nil

For what it worth, `split' function in Lrexlib produces exactly same output:

- for before, match in stringx.gmatch('Hello world', 'l', true) do
+ for before, match in rex.split('Hello world', 'l') do

"He"	"l"
""	"l"
"o wor"	"l"
"d"	nil

--
Shmuel