Re: Lua 5.1 (work6) now available (for loop)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> It's really going to be a lot of grunt work to change every single one of
> those 'for' statements.

The following script may help:

  t = io.read("*a")
  t = string.gsub(t, "%f[%w]for ([ %w,_]+) in +([%w_.]+) +do%f[%W]",
                     "for %1 in pairs(%2) do")
  io.write(t)

-- Roberto