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

Yes I did tried that pattern and it produce the expected result, but I'm 
really interested in know why the original pattern is failing, because I'm 
using it in a multi thousand lines text and it does work fine in most of 
the cases but fail in some (like the one I put on the first message and the 
two I put on the 
gist https://gist.github.com/mingodad/4f54e0c26b66f72b21476cab6fa9fa47 
where one succedd and the other fail).

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 2:21:24 PM UTC+2 Spar wrote:

> Correction. It's not actually the \n. It's because you used `[[ ]]` string 
> literals which works as C++ raw literals. They don't accept escapes.
>  
> So what actually happens can be described by my tool which doesn't accept 
> escapes too (i will fix it some day) :-)
>  
> https://gitspartv.github.io/lua-patterns/?pattern=%5B%5E%5Cn%5D*
> On May 12, 2026 at 15:20 +0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <
> [email protected]>, wrote:
>
> Try this simple pattern
>
> local remove_re = "Cuentas Anuales.-CREDITO%s+"
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