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- Subject: Re: A bug in pattern matching ??
- From: Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:20:49 -0700
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, goafteru <goafteru@qq.com> wrote:
>
> print ( string.gsub("abc", "%w*", "@") )
>
> and the result is:
> @@ 2
>
> rather than:
> @ 1
%w* can match the empty string, which it does after abc matches.
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-Patrick Donnelly
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