Thanks dirk,But as i said, i need to specify a starting position (which doesn't exist in gmatch and gsub functions) and can't afford to split my string.
Le 29/05/2015 21:22, Dirk Laurie a écrit :
I usually do it with gsub. Not my own idea, I saw it in
some code of Roberto's.
t = {}
data:gsub(pattern,
function(captures)
t[#t+1] = do_something_with_captures
end)
In yiour example, where you want numbers and booleans
to be translated, I would do this:
item = (function ()
local code = load(item)
if code then return code() end
end)() or item
If "item" is valid Lua code, it is replaced by its value, otherwise
it stays unchanged.