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

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

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

You're right. I missed that part: "where a, b and c can be any length
and can include non repeating occurrences of ;".

This should work then:
	 t = s..";;"
	 for p in t:gmatch("(.-);;") do print(p) end