Re: string.gmatch starting position

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 30-Aug-18 05:17, Daurnimator wrote:
> Hi Roberto,
>
> A feature request that would make some code simpler and faster:
> It would be great if string.gmatch took a position argument that was 
> used as the starting offset.
> This would line up with string.match and string.find.
> Looking at the implementation in lstrlib.c it should be very simple to add.

Yes, it could be very useful when parsing large strings. I missed this 
feature when I wrote a tiny gstring.match-based XML parser some time ago.

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  Enrico