[Lua] Capturing all captures

Quick q. How did I get table w/ all captures from string.match() ?

Currently I use something like this:
    c1, c2, c3 = string.match(s, pattern)
    captures = { ["\\1"] = c1, ["\\2"] = c2, ["\\3"] = c3 }
Obviously, this is not how it should be.

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>>2
Sure, why not ? It's quite nice if you need lightweight scripting language. It seems that it is very popular among game developers ( WoW, Far Cry, Baldur's Gate, Ragnarok, ... ), but some software use it too, like Adobe Lightroom.

I use it to implement caching engine for LightTPD webserver.

Lua is very popular among game developers because it's very small, very fast, easy to embed, and very extensible as a language, or so I hear. Because of this, I'm surprised Adobe used it.

I'm not sure quite why you're using stuff like ["\\1"] as indices, but if you can deal with numerical indices, you can make it more concise like so:
captures = { string.match(s, pattern) }
In case you were curious, the opposite of this operation is the function unpack, which returns multiple arguments according to the array passed to it:
string.match(unpack( { s, pattern } ))

>>1
why don't you use a generic for looping through the results of string.gmatch?

>>5
Thank you, that's exactly what I was asking for. I really wasn't expecting anyone to answer this, /prog/ seems to be all about trolling...

>>6
Oh, thats useful too, thanks. I'm still very new to Lua, like a couple of days.

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