Re: Stumped on a string patterns example

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2012/10/9 Jeff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk>:

>
> I have a string that maybe in any of these forms. I will omit the outer Lua
> string speechmarks for clarity
>
> Fred
> "Fred"
> 'Fred'
> \"Fred\"
> \'Fred\'
>
> I need to strip any speechmark and backslash characters and just return the
> string Fred as a Lua string.  The name inside the speechmarks could have
> spaces or numbers in it just to complicate things a bit
>

pat="(%p*)([%w ]*)(%p*)"
start, name, stop = str:match(pat)
if start~=stop then error "mismatched delimiters" end

This will of course also allow *Fred* etc.  Is that a problem?