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Links

• Sample Code
  • string_split.lua
  • strings.lua
• String Buffers
• The String Library
  • Tricks of the Trade
• String Recipes
• String Manipulation
  • Literal representation of strings
  • string.format
  • string:gsub
  • string:match
  • string:gmatch
  • string:rep
  • string:byte
  • string:char
  • string:upper
  • string:sub
  • table.concat: like "sep".join() in python

Regex

• Patterns
• Patterns (pil(
• A nice page on patterns and string.find
• Matching Lua's “Long bracket” string syntax

Misc

• string.gfind is now string.gmatch in Lua 5.1.