Re: string parsing vs hddtemp question

[Laurent Faillie <l_faillie@...>]

Le 18/03/2013 12:44, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo a écrit :
>>  for _, mnt,tp,temp,unit in s:gmatch("((/dev/[^|]+)|([^|]+)|([^|]+)|([^|]+)[|]?[^/]+)") do
>> 	print(mnt, tp, temp, unit)
>>  end
> The key to make this simpler is to make the string uniform by appending a
> separator at the end and to use - instead of +.
>
> s=s.."|"
> for mnt,tp,temp,unit in s:gmatch("|(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|") do
>         print(mnt, tp, temp, unit)
> end
>

Thanks to both of U : it's working very well thank you :)

But I still don't understand why my "(%a.+)" didn't work and extract the
remaining of the line.