Re: print("-5.3e - 10"*"2") doesnt work :/

[" Oldřich Švec" <oldrich.svec@...>]

And is there a way how to calculate fe. such string "(5+1+4)^(3+4)/5" so I dont need to change it into "5"+"1"..... The problem is that I get the formulas in string form... and I dont want to add " " all the time manualy
Oldrich Svec
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> Předmět: Re: print("-5.3e - 10"*"2") doesnt work :/
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> On 4/27/06, Oldrich Svec <OLDRICH.SVEC@CENTRUM.CZ>wrote:
> > Here (http://www.lua.org/pil/2.4.html) you can find an example of using
> > strings (print("-5.3e - 10"*"2")) but it doesn't work(attempt to perform
> > arithmetic on a string value)... I use Lua 5.1.
> > Generaly I want to use it to calculate strings (fe. "5+1+4" =>
> > print("5+1+4"+"0") should give 10 but it doesnt work.. :(
> 
> In this case, "-5.3e - 10" isn't recognized as a number. Try
> "-5.3e-10"*"2", which is recognized as a number.
> 
> "5+1+4"+"0" doesn't work because "5+1+4" is not a number. You would
> have to do print("5"+"1"+"4"+"0") instead.
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