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

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Meino

	The important aspect Luiz pointed out is that all your examples
(in that message) do had a ';' after the code.	If this is always true,
then you could identify the code without having to read data.

	Regards,
		Tomás

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> [14-03-11 20:04]:
> > > Suppose I have one character code like this
> > >
> > > A;0000;0000;0000             ("0"s is data)
> >
> > Now that you've given us a sample of the input, the solution is easier:
> >
> > 	... read line
> > 	local prefix,info=line:match("(.-);(.*)$")
> > 	local h=handlers[p[prefix] or badprefix
> > 	h(prefix,info)
> >
> > and register handlers for "A", "AB", "ABC", etc.
>
> ...and the problem with examples is, that they are examples only :)
> And I have to sent all variations to completly define what I need
> (which I am not allowed to do, by the way).
> Only to describe another variation:
>
> *A N
>
> thats why I *trying* to describe things more theorectically (rigt
> word? I am no native english speaker...)...