match_keys(3)

💅 match_keys(3) 💅

okay so welcome to the Arcan Lua API page for match_keys(3), bestie — this one is lowkey iconic because it hands you back a whole little pile of key-value matches instead of just one. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

• match_keys — Return target:value for keys that match the specified pattern. periodt. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

strtbl
match_keys( pattern, domain )

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This function can be used to retrieve multiple domain:value entries where domain:key=value matches for some specific pattern for key — and yes, % is used as the wildcard, SQL style, iykyk. 💅

The optional domain argument can be set to KEY_CONFIG or to KEY_TARGET, but it defaults to the appl-specific key-value store. no cap, that default is doing main character work. 🫶

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

okay here's the example, exactly as the page gives it — read it, don't skip it, it's giving useful:

       function match_keys0()
             for i,v in ipairs(match_keys("%", KEY_CONFIG)) do
                   print(i, v);
             end
             for i,v in ipairs(match_keys("%")) do
                   local pos, stop = string.find(v, "=", 1);
                   local key = string.sub(v, 1, pos - 1);
                   local val = string.sub(v, stop + 1);
                   print(key, val);
             end
       end

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• database — go peek at that one too, bestie. 👑

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okay that's the whole page — source/version is database, dated October 2026, and this was match_keys(3). bye bestie, go match some keys 💖✨🎀