Re: Lua string library partially reimplemented in Lua

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 19 Sep 2008, at 02:44, David Manura wrote:
> So, how about these string functions for Lua 5.2?
>
> (2) string.smatch (s, s2, [, init, [, final ] ])
>
> This searches for the string s2 in the string s, returning the
> position.  The search is optionally bounded in the range [init,
> final].  Set init == final to match at a specific position (it's
> sort-of like string.sub).  Perhaps it would be useful to add the
> optional "final" parameter to the string.match function too.

This operation, for better or worse, is usually called "index", as in  
"string.index".

I approve of your split.

drj