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- Subject: Re: Understanding Strings
- From: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 14:35:44 -0500
On May 28, 2012, at 14:29, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I'm stumped... I have a string...
>
> "tobj index (0 6 45)"
>
> how do I parse the string to get the left paren? I am using string.find and passing a single character which gets used as a pattern. This works fine when passed a "{" or a "<", but it chokes on "(" and "[". I just want to convert the enclosed data to a sub-table.
>
> None of the tutorials I have read seem to touch on writing such patterns. If you could lead the way?
>
> Mike
You need to escape the paren:
your_string:find("%(")
Does that help?
Lua thinks you're capturing something with your paren.
Andrew Starks
Co-Founder
Tightrope Media Systems
