Maybe I am missing something, but why do I get from this program:
local first = "catalogue-ctan"
local cdata = string.gsub(first,'^catalogue-', '')
print ("first = "..first)
print ("cdata = "..cdata)
the output:
first = catalogue-ctan
cdata = e-ctan
Same happens with
local cdata = string.match(first,'^catalogue-(.*)')
(texlua from TeX Live repository)
Best wishes
Norbert
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