Re: string buffer needs / string find

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

In absolutely no way!  (except for being slower, I guess..)

Thanks for the pointer, I just never realized the extension was there 
already!

-ak		**who's busy changing his code back to string.find**


17.9.2004 kello 20:28, Adrian Sietsma kirjoitti:

 Asko Kauppi wrote:
> > This is a variant of 'string.find()' with a starting place (probably, 
> > range?) within a string.  Allows me to look for HTML tags etc. within 
> > a huge all-in-one string, without creating an awful lot of 
> > intermediate substrings.
> > Current implementation:    using 'string.find' and 'string.sub'
> >     -----
> >     -- [start_int, stop_int [,capture ...]]= string.findfrom( str, 
> > start_int, pattern_str )
> >     --
> how does that differ from string.find(str,pattern,start_int) ? (Lua 
> 5.0)
> Adrian