Re: Lua match regex

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I am struggling with trying to match regex agains string.  Let's say I have
> a reg that looks like 4|44|22|445, basically a bunch of arbitrary numbers.
> Is that any Lua function that can tell me if a string match exactly one of
> those numbers?

If you know that your string contains a number, try this:

function test(item,list) print(not not string.find(list,"|"..item.."|")) end

list="|4|44|22|445|"
item="22"
test(item,list)

item="29"
test(item,list)