Re: I think I found a bug in Lua string.patterns, can anyone help see if it's true ?

I agree with you that '[^\n]*` will match as much as possible but never 
anything with '\n'

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 2:16:28 PM UTC+2 Spar wrote:

> A assume `[^\n]*` is what eating up half of the text.
>  
> * — Quantifier (zero or more). Allows to match the pattern zero or more 
> times. This will match the longest sequence.
> On May 12, 2026 at 15:13 +0300, Domingo Alvarez Duarte <[email protected]>, 
> wrote:
>
>
> What I expect and what I've got is in the first message, the gist has one 
> extra similar string that somehow get processed properly but the other 
> don't.
> I was expecting 5 non blank lines in the output but I'm getting only 3.  
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 2:06:19 PM UTC+2 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo 
> wrote:
>
>> > While doing some text replacements I found an unexpected behavior
>>
>> What did you expect and how does it differ from what you got?
>>
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