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Regular expressions (or regex) are a common and very versatile programming technique for manipulating strings. On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string.
String functions are used in computer programming languages to manipulate a string or query information about a string (some do both).. Most programming languages that have a string datatype will have some string functions although there may be other low-level ways within each language to handle strings directly.
The captures can be accessed later in the search string or in the string.gsub replacement string as %1 to %9, and are returned by string.match as an expression list of results. The qualifiers ? - * + specify repetitions of a single character (not a longer string).? means 0 or 1 repetitions: a? matches "a" or "".
This Lua module is used on ... number, with level 1 or 2, or nil-- Returns: string; possibly quoted local r = mw ... = v else if string.sub (k, 1, 3) == "sep" then ...
String interning is supported by some modern object-oriented programming languages, including Java, Python, PHP (since 5.4), Lua [4] and .NET languages. [5] Lisp , Scheme , Julia , Ruby and Smalltalk are among the languages with a symbol type that are basically interned strings.
The string-search functions in Lua script can run extremely fast, comparing millions of characters per second. For example, a search of a 40,000-character article text, for 99 separate words (passed as 99 parameters in a template), ran within one second of Lua CPU clock time.
COBOL uses the STRING statement to concatenate string variables. MATLAB and Octave use the syntax "[x y]" to concatenate x and y. Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET can also use the "+" sign but at the risk of ambiguity if a string representing a number and a number are together. Microsoft Excel allows both "&" and the function "=CONCATENATE(X,Y)".
The template takes a substring of ''text'' starting at ''start'' and containing ''length'' characters. Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status Text 1 The substring to be trimmed. String required Numeric position 2 Numeric position of the starting character within the string Number required Count 3 Number of characters for the substring Number required See also