On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:
Hi experts,
can anybody explain the following:
s = "/one/two/three"
print(s:match("/.-$")) --> /one/two/three
Shouldn't the result be "/three"? To me it seems clear that "three" is the
shortest character sequence between '/' and the end of the string.
String patterns have one overarching goal: find the first match.
The ".-" element has a local goal of finding the shortest match, but
this goal is less important than the first-match goal.
