Question

I want to search a long string for various items, the items might be like this;

"test     test"
"test            test"
"test test"

so I dont know how many spaces there might be between the tests so is there a wildcard I can use to basically tell lua its found if its “test” and “test” as long as there is at least 1 space character between the tests?

Answer 1

Try matching this pattern: "test +test".

Here is some code:

function try(s)
    print(s:match("test +test")~=nil,s)
end

try"test     test"
try"test            test"
try"test test"
try"test,test"
try"test, test"