Re: Most efficient way to recognize a line by its first (up to) three characters

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

> But how can I handle different length of prefixes with directly
> following data... ?

Just change the logic to extract the prefixes. Perhaps something like this:

	local h =  handlers[line:sub(1,1)]
		or handlers[line:sub(1,2)]
		or handlers[line:sub(1,3)]
		or badprefix