Re: Patterns that cope with beginnings and end of strings
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- Subject: Re: Patterns that cope with beginnings and end of strings
- From: James Mundane <fatootie@...>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 00:18:12 -0700
On 8/1/2013 5:12 PM, Geoff Leyland wrote:
> Suppose I have the nonsense string "all all ball all" and I'd like to change all the "all"s (but not the ball) to "none".
Geoff,
Slow down, little fella. You're over-thinking it. This solves your problem without all the ugly percent signs
("all all ball all"):gsub(".+", "none none ball none")
Next, we do it an infinite number of times, to make sure
while true do
("all all ball all"):gsub(".+", "none none ball none")
end
print("Whew! Its Miller Time. Hey, where'd the Universe go?")
Finally, shut down normally
os.remove(arg[0])
assert(false)
-jm