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Re: Bad uses of patterns (was: Re: Feature request: names for constants)

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It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> 
> 
> On 24/09/15 12:39 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >Consider the following code:
> >
> >local trim_pattern = "^%s*(.*%S)%s*$"
> >
> Wouldn't it be faster if you trimmed at start, reversed, then trimmed at 
> start again? (or maybe at start, then at end?)
 I think the fastest was is mentioned in this posting back in 2009:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-12/msg00951.html 
but you can check the entire thread starting from:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-12/msg00877.html
 -spc (I'll take Past Topics for 200,ドル Alex!)

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