Re: Function to parse filespec

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> pattern matching will get you most of the work.

> = ('d:\\bono\\dog\\cat.txt'):match('(%a):(\\.+\\)([^%.]+)%.(.+)$')
d       \bono\dog\      cat     txt

Although accounting for _all_ the cases with one pattern is a bit of a bitch ;)

steve d.