回复： A bug in pattern matching ??

["goafteru" <goafteru@...>]

It is mentioned  in the manual:

"a single character class followed by '*', which matches 0 or more repetitions of characters in the class.
These repetition items will always match the longest possible sequence;"

I think the empty string after "abc" should not be matched in lua, just like in other  programmes (such as: sed,gawk) .

 

 

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发件人: "Patrick Donnelly"<batrick@batbytes.com>;

发送时间: 2009年12月27日(星期天) 下午3:20

收件人: "Lua list"<lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>;

主题: Re: A bug in pattern matching ??

 

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, goafteru <goafteru@qq.com> wrote:
>
> print ( string.gsub("abc", "%w*", "@") )
>
> and the result is:
> @@ 2
>
> rather than:
> @ 1

%w* can match the empty string, which it does after abc matches.


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