Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string

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• Subject: Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string
• From: Hisham <h@...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:43:57 -0300

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On 6 March 2014 06:31, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014年03月06日 10:34 GMT+02:00 Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>:
>
>> I wanted to be able to write lua pattern code without having to look
>> at a manual page and carefully examine the pattern everytime.
>
> I've been using Lua for more than three years and I am not there yet.
> I still have to look up whether { is magic, what does %G mean etc.
Ten years of Lua here and I have to hit the manual for the patterns
reference all the time. Similar confusions. Going back and forth to
other pattern syntaxes in other language means I'll probably never
fully internalize it.
-- Hisham

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• References:
  • Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Coroutines
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Dirk Laurie
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Coroutines
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Thiago L.
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Coroutines
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Francisco Olarte
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Pierre-Yves Gérardy
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Francisco Olarte
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  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Francisco Olarte
  • Re: Lua Suggestion: return nil in string.find/match() for indexes that are before the string, Pierre-Yves Gérardy
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