Re: Patterns: Why are anchors not character classes?

[Paul K <paul@...>]

Hi John,

> Take the simple case of parsing a comma-separated list, the kludge I keep coming back to is concatenating a terminating comma onto the source string before applying the pattern:
...
> for n in ps:gmatch("(%d+)[,%$]") do

I ran into this couple of times and found that the frontier pattern
can do this job:

ps:gmatch("(%d+)%f[^%d]")

Paul.