Re: CHanging the order of parameters, is that possible?
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- Subject: Re: CHanging the order of parameters, is that possible?
- From: Marc Balmer <marc@...>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 17:50:39 +0100
Am 05.01.2013 um 17:38 schrieb Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>:
> pack, change, unpack ?
Yes, I was able to something in this direction. It works now.
Thanks,
Marc
>
>
> Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> schreef:
> Is it possible to change the order of parameters in a function taking varargs? Maybe using the select(n, ...) function?
>
> This is what I want to do:
>
> function foo(fmt, ...)
> -- switch element 1 and 2 of {...}
>
> print(string.format('%d %s', ...))
> end
>
>
> foo('%s %d', 42, 'balmer')
>
> (background is doing i18n in Lua, whith messages (= format strings) that can have the order of parameters changed)
Freundliche Grüsse,
micro systems
Marc Balmer
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