Pattern
A regexp-like1 string used by the Lua functions
string.find
string.match
string.gmatch
string.gsub
defined as
where | ^ |
matches the beginning of the string, |
$ |
matches the end of the string, and | |
RECURSIVE-ITEM |
is the recursive item. |
Footnotes:
1
Due to its small size, Lua does not use POSIX regular expressions.