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If the replacement is a function, not a string, the arguments passed to the function are any captures that are made. If the function returns a string, the value returned is substituted back into the string. Just like string.find() we can use regular expressions to search in strings. Patterns are covered in the [http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial Patterns Tutorial on Lua-Users.org], and [[ | If the replacement is a function, not a string, the arguments passed to the function are any captures that are made. If the function returns a string, the value returned is substituted back into the string. Just like string.find() we can use regular expressions to search in strings. Patterns are covered in the [http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial Patterns Tutorial on Lua-Users.org], and the [[pattern matching]] HOWTO. | ||
> = string.gsub("Hello Lua user", "(%w+)", print) -- print any words found | > = string.gsub("Hello Lua user", "(%w+)", print) -- print any words found | ||