Re: comments, line numbers and storing a file in a single string

["Evan DeMond" <evan.demond@...>]

On Dec 11, 2007 12:22 PM, Roger D. Vargas <luo_hei@yahoo.es> wrote:

Stefan Sandberg escribió:

> ...which means your line breaks are missing.

line breaks? Do I need DOS like line breaks?

My tests seem to indicate that a line break can be 0xA (char 10, \n, linefeed), 0xD (char 13, \r, carriage return) or both:

Lua 5.1.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> testval = nil
> print(testval)
nil
> assert(loadstring("-- comment \013 testval = 1"))()
> print(testval)
1
> assert(loadstring("-- comment \010 testval = 2"))()
> print(testval)
2
> assert(loadstring("-- comment \017 testval = 3"))()
> print(testval)
2
> assert(loadstring("-- comment \010\013 testval = 12"))()
> print(testval)
12
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