Re: Evaluating expressions, not statements?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>Is there a way to evaluate a Lua expression in the form of a string? There
>only seems to be dostring() which will give an error if you pass it
>something like "2+3*5".

Try dostring"return 2+3*5"

Or

function eval_string (str)
	return dostring ("return "..str)
end

--lhf