PA wrote:
On Sep 10, 2005, at 14:27, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:To get this functionality with Lua 5.1, one should use 2 functions instead: string.find and string.match.Perhaps string.find() and string.sub()? E.g.: local aStart, anEnd = aContent:find( "%b<>", anIndex ) if aStart ~= nil then local aTag = aContent:sub( aStart, anEnd )
This doesn't give us captures. So, string.match is still needed. (Your example doesn't specify captures). -- Shmuel