Re: writable "string" ?

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

--- Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > It seems that keeps on re-constructing the string
> > would be very in-efficient, so is using a table to
> > store individual char(as string or number).
> 
> Try ropes. See http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaRopes .
> --lhf
> 
Thanks but that doesn't seem to be what I want. I am
actually not constructing string from pieces but just
use string as block buffer which only needs simple
file type read/write access(sort of in memory file).



 
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