limit on the number of captures using string.find?

[Jon Gross <jong@...>]

Greetings from a lua newcomer!

I've searched the archive, but haven't found anything that is helpful  
for a problem I'm having.

I've run into a situation where I have a really long string that I'm  
reading from a file.

I need to split it up into pieces, that I can later reference (sort  
of like (foo,bar,baz) = split(/\s/,$str) in perl), so I'm doing this:


local pat = string.rep("baz", 46)

local _,_,foo,bar,bar = string.find(s, pat)

the problem is that whenever I make the pattern contain more than 31  
repetitions, lua complains:

lua: ./tcpext.lua:10: too many captures


Is there a limit on the number of captures that you can do?  If there  
is, does anyone have a good way of grabbing more than 31 chunks from  
a string and assigning those chunks to variables?

Any help is greatly appreciated!


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Jon Gross
jong@jongrossphotography.com