Re: %f in patterns

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 11 Jul 2006, at 14:16, PA wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:51, David Jones wrote:
>
> > The use of %f in patterns is not documented (at the end of section  
> > 5.3 of the manual).  Is that deliberate?
>
> "Exactly. It is not documented because we are not sure it is worth
> providing this kind of facility."
> -- Roberto
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-09/msg00294.html

Thanks I had a sneaking suspicion this might have come up before.

> "Frontier Pattern"
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/FrontierPattern

Yes, were I the sort of person that used Lua for string matching, I  
think I'd find it quite useful.

drj