The most common footgun I run into with Lua isn't the 1-indexing. It's the wildcard nature of '-'.

Today's head-scratcher:

> ('00-43'):match('^(%d%d)-(%d%d)')
00	43
> ('00-43'):match('^%d%d-(%d%d)')
nil

I should just always escape it ('%-') as a matter of course.

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