Re: Iterating over string with delimiter that is multiple occurrences of the same character

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

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>         t = s.. ";;"
>
> Now do
>         for p in t:gmatch("(.-);+") do print(p) end

I think that single ";" need to be escaped, if I read the OP's request
correctly.