Re: string parsing vs hddtemp question

[Laurent Faillie <l_faillie@...>]

Le 18/03/2013 17:38, Jerome Vuarand a écrit :
> 2013/3/18 Laurent Faillie <l_faillie@yahoo.com>:
>> 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.
> The culprit is .+, it will mean it will match one or more of any
> characters. The + pattern is greedy, it will match as many characters
> as possible. And that means it will match the whole input string in
> the first gmatch match, rather than iterate over smaller parts like
> you expected. You need to replace .+ with .- in your initial pattern.
>
Ok, thanks for explanation.

Bye