On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
2016-01-05 9:50 GMT+02:00 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
I also wonder about using %b with the same character twice, like: %b"" - the
manual says it expects two different characters, but it'd be nice if we
could do this.
I don't know why the manual says that. It works perfectly well with
the same character twice.
string.match('abc"def"ghi"jkl"mno','%b""')
"def"
And this proposal would make that even more powerful:
str = [[char str[] = "this \"is\" a test"]]
str
char str[] = "this \"is\" a test"
str:match[[%B"\"]]
"this \"is\" a test"
Poof: instant matching of string literals with escape handling, in a
five-character pattern. How cool is that? :-)
