Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file
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- Subject: Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file
 
- From: "Matthew Wild" <mwild1@...>
 
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:37:39 +0100
 
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Brian Sanders <brian.sanders@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... so if it is in either UTF-16 or UCS-2 with BOM... is there any way
> for me to use these log files with a LUA script? I guess it is good to know
> that I did understand the LUA tutorials, it was my input file I was not
> looking closely enough at.
>
It's a hack, and there is probably a nice(r) way of doing it, but try:
logstring = logstring:sub(3):gsub("%z", "")
It will at least remove the zeros that stop it from printing, but if
you have non-latin characters then they might get messed up.
Matthew.
- References:
- New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Brian Sanders
 
- Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Tim Channon
 
- Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Brian Sanders
 
- Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Klaus Ripke
 
- Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Klaus Ripke
 
- Re: New to LUA, trying to read from a file, Brian Sanders