Re: Keyed format specifier

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

Erik von Reis wrote:
> My apologies if this is the wrong place to suggest this, but how about 
> adding a keyed format specifier for string.format?
>
> To me,
>
> string.format("%(foo)s  = %(bar)d", {foo =  "variable", bar = 22})
>
> which I stole from Python, would be very handy and fits comfortably 
> into the primitive way I think about Lua.
>
> Erik von Reis
This would be pretty easily done w/:
string.gsub("%(foo)s  = %(bar)d", "%%%(([^)]+)%)", {foo =  "variable", 
bar = 22})

you could abstract it a bit...