find "." (dot) in string

[the underminer]

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dot = string.find (contents[1], [[.]])

doesn't work. Neither does

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dot = string.find (contents[1], ".")

Does anyone know why this happens or how to do this?

[MikeHaggar]

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dot = string.find (contents[1], [[.]])

doesn't work. Neither does

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dot = string.find (contents[1], ".")

Does anyone know why this happens or how to do this?

dot = string.find (contents, ".") ?

[the underminer]

no, contents is right. I'm trying to find "." in the array contents where i is the entry number. i = 1 So it reads from the first entry of contents. I'm not wrong there

[Durante]

Easy, by default find does pattern matching, so . matches any character.
Read more: http://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html

(I don't know how many threads I have answered with links to PIL already... just read it! - I didn't know Lua 3 weeks ago either ;))

Btw, what you want is "%."

[the underminer]

I knew it was a stupid question, but didn't know where to get the answer. thanks a million durante!