string patterns are so confusing...

[Eungavi]

I am aware of that Wowpedia has a great tutorial(?) for pattern matching, but this is still sooooooooooooooo confusing!
Even for simple ones, I really can't figure out how

So, I'm currently playing around with COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED and willing to separate its subEvent into prefix and suffix. It would have been easier if each prefix or suffix had a single word, but some of them are combination of two words including underscores (e.g. _EXTRA_ATTACKS, SPELL_PERIODIC).

Any helps, please?

[myrroddin]

Instead of pattern matching, if you need several sub-events, create a table:

local sub_events = {
    "PARTY_KILL" = true,
    "UNIT_RESURRECTION" = true,
    -- etc
}

Register COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED as usual, then check the event arg

if sub_events[event] then
    -- found it, do something
end

[Eungavi]

That's a great idea
Since I only need six sub events at the moment, I would use it for now.

But, I would like to learn pattern matching as well for later use.
Maybe I was a bit impatient and should re-visit Wowpedia's tutorial, tho

[Kanegasi]

If you don’t mind using the scenic route, find any tutorial on regular expressions (commonly known as regex), then learn Lua pattern matching. Same concepts and mostly same implementation, Lua just isn’t as extensive or versatile. There should be a ton of resources on regex online, since it is widely used. It should help you understand better knowing how and where Lua pattern matching gets its ideas.

[Eungavi]

That would be much better!

Lua has an official documentation as well as couple of tutorials (like Wowpedia's one), but I personally find them not clear :/

Thanks for the tip

[Seerah]

http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial