Re: String pattern for chinese word

[Choonster TheMage <choonster.2010@...>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:55 PM, jiang yu <yu.jiang.163@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>  s = [[ '\xe8\x8b\xb1\xe9\x9b\x84\xe6\x95\x91\xe7\xbe\x8e','id','哈哈','6' ]]
>  for i in string.gmatch(s,"'(%w+)'") do
>    print(i)
>  end
> output is:
> id
> 6
>  How can I get the all four words?
>
>
> mos
>

I believe %w only matches letters of the Latin alphabet and numbers.
One way to capture all four words would be to use the %b token:

 s = [[ '\xe8\x8b\xb1\xe9\x9b\x84\xe6\x95\x91\xe7\xbe\x8e','id','哈哈','6' ]]
 for i in string.gmatch(s,"%b''") do
   i = i:match("'(.+)'")
   print(i)
 end