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- Subject: Re: string format help
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:32:39 -0300
> > I'm relatively new to lua, and I'm wondering if there is a fix for this on
> > 5.2.1:
> >
> > > print(string.format('%d', 2^63))
> > 9223372036854775807 [[ = 2^63 - 1 ]]
> >
>
> Anybody have a clue why this happens? Doesn't seem to be string.format
> related.
One fix is use Lua 5.2.2 or later, which at least complains:
Lua 5.2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(string.format('%d', 2^63))
stdin:1: bad argument #2 to 'format' (not a number in proper range)
