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- Subject: Re: Finding word matches without the frontier pattern
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:55:21 +0200
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Henryla <henryla@gmail.com> wrote:
> how about this very ugly and stupid format...
>
> str = "my dog"
> ret = (" " .. str .. " "):match("%W(dog)%W")
Oh yes, that does work - but now imagine that you have a lot of big
strings which you have to modify in this way in order to search for
words. Luiz' orginal suggestion would probably be the most efficient
way.
