Re: how to translate lua pattern "(.*)and(.*)" with lpeg re ?

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 21/01/18 12:04, albertmcchan wrote:
> looks like it is not easy to convert lua pattern "(.*)and(.*)" after all
>
> my last attempt, re.compile "{(!'and' .)*} 'and' {.*}" was close, but still wrong
>
> the re pattern correspond to lua pattern "(.-)and(.*)", not the greedy version.

What is your example input?

When I try:

require "re"
target = "foo and bar"
local re_pat = re.compile "{ (!'and' .)*} 'and' {.*}"
print (lpeg.match (re_pat, target))

I get "foo bar" as the output. Is that not what you expect?