Merge pull request #27 from phi-gamma/master

latest changes

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lualibs-string.lua b/lualibs-string.lua
index 3b1a000..e9dc2bb 100644
--- a/lualibs-string.lua
+++ b/lualibs-string.lua
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ end
 --     return not find(str,"%S")
 -- end
 
-local pattern = P(" ")^0 * P(-1)
+local pattern = P(" ")^0 * P(-1) -- maybe also newlines
 
 -- patterns.onlyspaces = pattern
 
@@ -192,10 +192,11 @@ string.itself  = function(s) return s end
 
 -- also handy (see utf variant)
 
-local pattern = Ct(C(1)^0) -- string and not utf !
+local pattern_c = Ct( C(1)      ^0) -- string and not utf !
+local pattern_b = Ct((C(1)/byte)^0)
 
-function string.totable(str)
-    return lpegmatch(pattern,str)
+function string.totable(str,bytes)
+    return lpegmatch(bytes and pattern_b or pattern_c,str)
 end
 
 -- handy from within tex: