Re: Why remove [[ ... [[ ... ]] ... ]]
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- Subject: Re: Why remove [[ ... [[ ... ]] ... ]]
- From: roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)
- Date: 2006年3月17日 14:31:28 -0300
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:05:02PM +0800, mos wrote:
> Hi!
> From 5.02 to 5.1, it can not surpport the string like [[abc[[def]]ghl]], I indeed have the requirement because I use Lua as the RPC's parser.
> I like [[ ]], it have begin and end so can use it freely.
> for example: I send a cmd to server like
> "DoCmd([[ShutDown([[the server will shut down!]])]])";
> and more
> SendCmdRemote("topserver", [[DoCmd([[ShutDown([[the server will shut down!]])]]]])
> and I feel very sad when use [=[ ]=] etc. How can I know how many '=' I should append?
>
One more than the previous one?
[==[DoCmd([=[ShutDown([[the server will shut down!]])]=]]==]
The reason for the change was to simplify the language. For instance,
now it is easy to write a Lua pattern to match such comments. Also, it
should be easier to write syntax highlight and other tools for Lua. I
also think it is easier to read your example with the new syntax (but
this is my personal taste, of course).
(I know; the new format is not a regular expression, too. It cannot
be. But if you assume the tool should work only up to 10 equals, then
you can define it as a regular expression.)
The next function builds the "correct" brackets for a given string:
function quote (s)
-- find maximum length of sequences of equal signs
local n = -1
for w in string.gmatch(s, "]=*") do
n = math.max(n, #w - 1)
end
-- produce a string with 'n' plus one equal signs
local eq = string.rep("=", n + 1)
-- build quoted string
return string.format(" [%s[\n%s]%s] ", eq, s, eq)
end
(Example taken from the 2nd edition of the Lua book :)
-- Roberto