lua string patterns code example

Example 1: lua gsub

s = string.gsub("Lua is cute", "cute", "great")
print(s)         --> Lua is great
s = string.gsub("all lii", "l", "x")
print(s)         --> axx xii
s = string.gsub("Lua is great", "perl", "tcl")
print(s)         --> Lua is great

Example 2: Lua string

-- Strings are immutable. Immutable simply means unmodifiable or unchangeable.
a = 'this is a string'

Example 3: lua table of all characters

for i=32, 256 do
 chartable[i] = utf8.char(i)
end