[Question] Help with string.match()

I am looking for where I can find the string.match() inputs(?) like %d+ , %a+, and the such, and what they mean. The purpose of this is to create a calculator within CC. I need to do string separation, but I don't know how. Anyone know where I can get a library of those or an easy to follow tutorial?

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Also found(with extensive googling and CTRL+F'ing) this: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html
Section 5.4.1 tells me exactly what I needed.

• x: (where x is not one of the magic characters ^$()%.[]*+-?) represents the character x itself.
• .: (a dot) represents all characters.
• %a: represents all letters.
• %c: represents all control characters.
• %d: represents all digits.
• %l: represents all lowercase letters.
• %p: represents all punctuation characters.
• %s: represents all space characters.
• %u: represents all uppercase letters.
• %w: represents all alphanumeric characters.
• %x: represents all hexadecimal digits.
• %z: represents the character with representation 0.
• %x: (where x is any non-alphanumeric character) represents the character x. This is the standard way to escape the magic characters. Any punctuation character (even the non magic) can be preceded by a '%' when used to represent itself in a pattern.

Copied straight from lua.org (it was very hard to find in amongst all the text)

That's why I had to use CTRL + F so much… Google doesn't like searching for them…

craniumkid22, on 17 August 2012 - 11:12 PM said:

That's why I had to use CTRL + F so much… Google doesn't like searching for them…

You'd think they could make it easier to read with a bit of JavaScript and a rewrite or something.

Or you can use the index, and then scroll down to where it says "String Manipulation" and click on the subitem "Patterns".

Well, with no coding history beyond Lua in CC, I had no idea what it was I was looking for(name), but I knew what I was looking for(characters)…. That sounds illogical, doesn't it?