Re: request for isprint character class code in string.gsub patterns
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- Subject: Re: request for isprint character class code in string.gsub patterns
- From: Rici Lake <lua@...>
- Date: 2004年9月24日 16:03:35 -0500
Have you looked at the %q string.format code ?
On 24-Sep-04, at 3:55 PM, David Jones 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).
Has anyone already written such a code? (And is it freely available)
It seems like such a commonly needed function.
There's a bit in this function where it expands unprintable codes to
the \nnn representation. It currently looks a bit like this:
string.gsub("7円ab","[^ %p%w]", function(x)return
'\\'..string.byte(x)end)
What I want to do is match all non-printable characters. C provides
this concept via isprint and isgraph, but in Lua I have to use the
union of " ", "%p" (punctuation), and "%w" (alphanumerics). Which
relies on isprint being a union of space, isprint, and isalnum (which
the C standard guarantees, but it seems tenuous).
Would it be possible to have another % code for the isprint character
class? %t perhaps (for typeable or text)? From a completeness aspect
I suppose we should also have one for isgraph. Or do The Implementors
think that the current situation, synthesis via %w and %p, is ok?
David Jones