Re: pattern matching problem

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Choonster TheMage <choonster.2010@gmail.com> wrote:

local function trim0( s )

    return s:match("^(%d*%.?0?%d-)0*$")

end

print( trim0 "123.450000000" )
print( trim0 "1234500" )
print( trim0 "12345.0" )

If input is known to be good, then this works. It matches "10231.", which should probably be fine... Don't know if that smells or not.

-Andrew