On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jeff Wise
<jwise@sealyrealty.com> wrote:
>str = "a"
> num = 97
>=string.find("foobar", str)
>5 5
> =string.find("foobar", num)
>nil
I would expect these results because str = "a" probably makes a 2 byte
field, the "a" and "\0". I would expect "num" not to work because it is
defined as a number (num = 97). Therefore Lua would make it a float long (8
bytes?) value with mantissa and exponent.
In addition, string.find("foobar", num) converts num to a string before searching.
> = string.find("foo97bar", 97)
4 5
Same as doing:
> = string.find("foo97bar", tostring(97))
4 5
