RE: Baffling behaviour of string.match
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- Subject: RE: Baffling behaviour of string.match
- From: <jgiors@...>
- Date: 2010年12月14日 14:32:50 -0700
> ------------------------------
> Date: 2010年12月14日 19:31:08 +0200
> From: Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za>
> Subject: Baffling behaviour of string.match
> To: Lua mailing list <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Message-ID: <20101214173108.GA5201@rondloper>
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>
> I don't understand this.
>
> --[[
> > s='abbcd'; return a:match('b')
> b
> > s='abbcd'; return a:match('bb')
> bb
> > s='abbcd'; return a:match('b*')
>
> >
> --]]
>
> I expected the last match to be also "bb".
>
> Dirk
In a pattern, "*" means "match 0 or more repetitions". string.match
found zero repetitions of 'b' at the start of the string (in the "null
space" prior to the letter a).
John Giors
Independent Programmer
Three Eyes Software
jgiors@ThreeEyesSoftware.com
http://ThreeEyesSoftware.com