string.find (s, pattern [, init [, plain]]) |
Looks for the first match of
pattern in the string s .
If it finds a match, then find returns the indices of s
where this occurrence starts and ends;
otherwise, it returns nil.
A third, optional numerical argument init specifies
where to start the search;
its default value is 1 and can be negative.
A value of true as a fourth, optional argument plain
turns off the pattern matching facilities,
so the function does a plain "find substring" operation,
with no characters in pattern being considered "magic".
Note that if plain is given, then init must be given as well.
If the pattern has captures,
then in a successful match
the captured values are also returned,
after the two indices. |
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