Re: Finding end of string

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

On 2017-10-10 02:44 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2017-10-10 14:52 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> > local m, pos
> > repeat -- TODO fix
> >    m, pos = string.match(word_eol[2],
> > "%f[\\"..cw:sub(1,1).."](\\*)"..cw:sub(1,1).."()", pos)
> > until #m % 2 == 0
> >
> > I'm having issues making this work.
> The title of the post describes a trivial problem (answer: #str+1).
>
> I can't work by reading it what problem the code tries to solve.

Sorry, I meant end of string literal.

After a few hours I came up with this, which works:

local m, pos
repeat
  m, pos = string.match(word_eol[2], "(\\*)"..cw:sub(1,1).."()", pos or 2)
until m == nil or #m % 2 == 0

(cw:sub(1,1) being one of " or ')

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