Question about string.find(

[BluePanther]

Hello,

have a script searching in input with

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+(.*)$")

This reacts to all inputs. I like to change it reacts only on #input. Trying

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+(%#.*)$")

or something like that (\035) failed. If I try an alpha char like

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+(%y.*)$")

it works fine. How to get this non alpha char # to work?
By the way, what's %b? Couldn't find anything about this.

Thanks for your help.

-BP-

[Dessamator]

%b<> is used to find anything within the "<>" like the nick .
Your code should work if its like this:

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+%#(.*)$")

unless u want it to show the # also.

[CrazyGuy]

the $ sign in your capturing is quite useless tho as $ indicates ( in this case ) "until the end of the string" while the capture (.*) also captures everything until the end

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+%#(.+)")

like Dessamator said, if you want the # included in the capturing it should work like

local s,e,msg = string.find(data, "%b<>%s+(%#.+)")

[Herodes]

better try use  the string.match instead of the .find
compare:

local cmd = string.match( data, "%b<>%s+(%S+)" )
local s,e,cmd = string.find( data, "%b<>%s+(%S+)" )

You can make it even more advanced by doing following this principle:

("how many times?"):rep(15)

So that you have something like :

local cmd = data:match("%b<>%s+(%S+)")

Have fun!

[bastya_elvtars]

local s,e,cmd = string.find( data, "%b<>%s+(%S+)" )

Isn't string.find supposed to return the s and e values only?

[Herodes]

Isn't string.find supposed to return the s and e values only?

string.find (s, pattern [, init [, plain]])
Looks for the first match of pattern in the string s. If it finds a match, then find returns the indices of s where this occurrence starts and ends; otherwise, it returns nil. A third, optional numerical argument init specifies where to start the search; its default value is 1 and may be negative. A value of true as a fourth, optional argument plain turns off the pattern matching facilities, so the function does a plain "find substring" operation, with no characters in pattern being considered "magic". Note that if plain is given, then init must be given as well.
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If the pattern has captures, then in a successful match the captured values are also returned, after the two indices.[/b]