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

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 21/01/18 13:33, Sean Conner wrote:
> I'm thinking the input is something like:
>
> 	this and that and the other

Yes, I can reproduce the issue with "foo and bar and whatever" as I get a match of:

1 = foo
2 =bar and whatever

I can't for the life of me work out how to match up the *last* and (which would be the greedy match).

A pattern like:  { (!'and' .)*} 'and' {.*}

... consumes up to the first 'and'. I need to somehow say "keep consuming until 'and' doesn't appear any more".

- Nick