string.gmatch查找两个不等号之间的字符串

Question

I'm using Lua, already used Google and nothing, can't find way to get string between inequality signs (< >). Other brackets are easy to get but these not. It's possible to do?

Target: How to grab "name" from string between inequality signs?

String: < name >: Message

Answer 1

如果name不包含> ，则<(.-)>起作用。

Answer 2

You can use the (%b<>) pattern to capture matching <> . Then using that value, you can simply use string.sub to cut off the first and last char:

name,message=('< name<> > : Foo Bar!'):match('(%b<>)%s*:%s*(.*)')
name=name:sub(2,-2)
print(name,'sent message :',message)

As you can see this also takes care of strings containing other, embedded <> signs