Re: Function to parse filespec

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
> 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 ;)

It's probably not practical to do all at one go, specially the 
filespec part. I think it would fail if the file has multiple 
dots, or if the file starts with a dot.

I would skip the hard work and copy the algorithm from something 
like the Apache Portable Runtime. :-)

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Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia