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

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Though in many cases, you don't really need split, e.g. something like
> the following is actually cleaner than doing a split and iterating over
> the resulting table:
>
>    for field in string.gmatch (STRING, "[^ \t\n]+") do
>      .... use field ...
>    end

And what if the fields are delimited by, say, "<delim>" ?

The rule of thumb is to use gmatch when fields are easier to express 
with regexp than delimiters, otherwise use split (provided it's 
available :) ).

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Shmuel