Re: string.find does act differently based on input?

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Subject: Re: string.find does act differently based on input?
From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:02:11 +0200

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does string.find find the word "test" but not the "(" ?

Because '(' is a 'magic character' in string patterns.  If you say
string.find(s,'(',1,true) then it does a plain search.

steve d.

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