Re: Problem matching on [.]

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 15/05/2007 01:37, David Burgess wrote:
> What I grapple with is
>
> > print(string.match("x","[f]"))
> nil
>
> > print(string.match("x","[f]*"))
>
> (empty string)

I don't understand the problem here. First expression just doesn't 
match, the second matches because * always matches empty string.

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