Re: request for isprint character class code in string.gsub patterns

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 22:03, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > I'm writing a function to quote a string, that is, it takes a string
> > and returns a string that when printed is acceptable as a lua literal
> > (and the literal is equal to the passed string).
>
> This is the job of %q in string.format. I think support for
> non-printable characters needs to be added to %q.

Ah.  I have been way from Lua for too long, for I did once know about 
%q.  Thanks (and to Rici Lake).

I think you're right, support for non-printable characters needs to be 
added to %q.  Because it's not there now. :)

No-one crying out for support for isprint in string.gsub now?  I 
thought not.

Cheers,
 drj