Re: Help with sting compare?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 18-Aug-05, at 11:18 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:

> >
>
> Philippe,
>
> read.io()  gets one line from the current file, or standard input.

Actually, that's io.read() :) I assume you actually got it right in 
your program.

The following little Lua program works (io.lines is a much easier way 
of iterating lines of a file, but it's not actually different from the 
repeat loop):

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rlake@freeb:~$ cat hudson.test
foo
bar
&
glitch
&
comma
&&
ignored
&
rlake@freeb:~$ cat hudson.lua
count = 0
for aline in io.lines() do
  if aline == "&" then count = count + 1
  elseif aline == "&&" then break
  end
end
print(count)

rlake@freeb:~$ lua hudson.lua < hudson.test
2

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I believe that's the expected result.

Can't help you more without knowing a lot more details.