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On 23.04.2013 13:14, Peter Cawley wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:
Hi experts,

can anybody explain the following:

     s = "/one/two/three"
     print(s:match("/.-$"))   --> /one/two/three

Shouldn't the result be "/three"? To me it seems clear that "three" is the
shortest character sequence between '/' and the end of the string.

String patterns have one overarching goal: find the first match.

The ".-" element has a local goal of finding the shortest match, but
this goal is less important than the first-match goal.

OK, that is comprehensible, thanks!

Bernd

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