Re: String matching on keys of a table

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:16 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> I will take a look at the tries. For curiosity reasons I want to
> try to avoid "ready solutions" (like sqlite). But if my keyboard
> gets spilled with blood til afternoon, I think I will be less
> curious... ;)

Fair enough, nothing like trying it yourself. 

That said, before you do bleed too much, what's wrong with a linear search? Considering you just have a handful of keys, is it really that slow?

E.g.

for aKey, aValue in pairs( aTable ) do
  if aKey:find( something, 1, true ) then
    -- do stuff
  end
end