Re: Baffling behaviour of string.match

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
>> s='abbcd'; return a:match('b*')

'b*' means "any number of b's", where 'any' could be zero.  it matches
the zero-b occurrence at the start of the string.

try 'b+'


-- 
Javier