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Long strings

Started by bastya_elvtars, 22 March, 2006, 22:25:05

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bastya_elvtars

This script is a tutorial script: it shows the possible caveats of the 'non-long' declaration and hopefully teaches coders to play safe when needed. I used dofile on files, cause string.find returns strings as if they were long ones.

I hope you can benefit from it.

By the way, this is a result of a discussion on the luahub between GeceBekcisi, Mutor and me.

str=[[\tight]] -- This is a long string, \t would become a tab char if used between "

_,_,str2=string.find(str,"(.+)") -- let's get all of the string. Looks stupid, but shows that string.find returns it as a long string.

local file=os.tmpname() -- Let's generate a tempfile.

f=io.open(file,"w+")
f:write("str3=\""..str2.."\"") -- We write it out: str3="\tight"
f:close()

dofile(file) -- We load it.

print(str3) -- We print it.

f=io.open(file,"w+")
f:write("str3="..string.format("%q",str2)) -- Formatting this way will result in: str3="\\tight"
f:close()

dofile(file)

print(str2)

os.remove(file) -- Let's delete the tempfile.
Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.

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