The Hacker's Language in Action: #3 Strings

in #software • 8 years ago

Strings in Lua are sequences of bytes... Lua is eight-bit clean and its strings can contain bytes with any numeric code, including embedded zeros.

Roberto Ierusalimschy.

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Basics: a change, length operator and concatenation operator

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Escape sequences in Lua

C-like Escape SequenceCharacter
\abell
\bbackspace
\fform feed
\nnewline
\rcarriage return
\thorizontal tab
\vvertical tab
\\backslash
\"double quote
\'single quote

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Corecions

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The String Library

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Format and More:

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Unicode

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References

  • Roberto Ierusalimschy, Programming in Lua, Fourth Edition.
  • lua.org

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