Re: Suggestion for new pattern item like %bxy

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 15/02/17 12:47 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > 2017-02-15 12:35 GMT+02:00 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Delimiters are usually part of the container, not part of the payload.
> > >
> > > In real life you are usually throwing away all packing materials
> > > of all the thing you have bought, isn't it?
> As Jorome already pointed out, %b and %B are not on the same foot. You
> guys are actually comparing '%B' with '(%b)'. Again repeating Jerome,
> a '%B' would be a new class of beast that matches *and* captures,
> something that does not currently exist in Lua.
>
> -- Roberto
I read this as "you should use LPeg".

To OP: You should use LPeg.

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