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-rw-r--r--search.lua9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/search.lua b/search.lua
index c9af187..fe57ac9 100644
--- a/search.lua
+++ b/search.lua
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ end
 -- Particularly if we only care about literal matches, we don't need all of string.find
 function rfind(s, pat, i, plain)
   if s == nil then return end
+  if #pat == 0 then return #s end
   local rs = s:reverse()
   local rpat = pat:reverse()
   if i == nil then i = #s end
@@ -141,3 +142,11 @@ function rfind(s, pat, i, plain)
   assert (endpos >= #pat)
   return endpos-#pat+1
 end
+
+function test_rfind()
+  check_eq(rfind('abc', ''), 3, 'empty pattern')
+  check_eq(rfind('abc', 'c'), 3, 'final char')
+  check_eq(rfind('acbc', 'c', 3), 2, 'previous char')
+  check_nil(rfind('abc', 'd'), 'missing char')
+  check_nil(rfind('abc', 'c', 2), 'no more char')
+end