RE: return from lua_dostring?

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

>is there a way to redefine exit() so that instead of exiting the entire program, it returns immediately from that dostring ?

Use error(), with no arguments. Try this:

 print"HELLO"

 dostring[[
  print"hello"
  error()
  print"bye"
 ]]

 print"BYE"

This will print

 HELLO
 hello
 BYE

--lhf