Re: string.findpairs?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-12-12 15:49 GMT+02:00 Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> (I find it more intuitive than `for from, match1, match2, to`)

function tweak(f)
   return function()
      local a,b,c,d = f()
      if d then return a,d-1,b,c end
   end
end

S="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
pat="()(%S+)%s+(%S+)()"

for from,to,match1,match2 in tweak(S:gmatch(pat)) do
   print(from, to, match1, match2)
end