string.gmatch confusion

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• Subject: string.gmatch confusion
• From: Mitchell <lists@...>
• Date: 2022年8月29日 11:03:44 -0400

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Hi,
I must be missing something:
> for i in string.gmatch('foobar', '.', 4) do print(i) end
f
o
o
b
a
r
I expect only the characters from 'bar' to be printed since I am passing the 'init' argument to string.gmatch.
What am I missing or not understanding?
Cheers,
Mitchell

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