From 9dd7ec18894a7b4ae291a10d5e6bb7139b995dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: XeonSquared <redtailedairways@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:50:36 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] convinced the event library to handle non-string filters

---
 lib/event.lua | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/event.lua b/lib/event.lua
index aecef38..7edfdc5 100644
--- a/lib/event.lua
+++ b/lib/event.lua
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@ function event.pull(t,...) -- return an event, optionally with timeout *t* and f
   tEv = {coroutine.yield()}
   local ret = true
   for i = 1, #tA do
-   if not (tEv[i] or ""):match(tA[i]) then
-    ret = false
+   if type(tEv[i]) == "string" and type(tA[i]) == "string" then
+    if not (tEv[i] or ""):match(tA[i]) then
+     ret = false
+    end
+   else
+    ret = tEv[i] == tA[i]
    end
   end
   if ret then return table.unpack(tEv) end