Re: lua interpreter

[Burt Jurgens <jurgens@...>]

Just add a backslash at the end of a line to tell it to wait for the end 
before processing it, like this:

if X > Y then \
  print("X is greater than Y") \
end

Cheers,

Burt



intern_number_1 wrote:

> When using the lua interactive interpreter I have a problem where I 
> can not do anything that needs to span multiple lines.
>
> E.g. the following would not work
>
> if X > Y then
>   print("X is greater than Y")
> end
>
> Is this possible to do with the interactive interpreter?  If so what 
> do I need to do different than usual?  Also if there was somewhere I 
> could find some general documentation or a help file on the 
> interactive interpreter that would be great too.  I looked on the lua 
> homepage, but couldn't find it; maybe I'm just missing it though.
>
>
>