Re: Reading a zero-terminated string

[David Given <dg@...>]

Enrico Colombini wrote:
[...]
> Did I miss a simpler and/or cleaner (pure-Lua) way to read a 
> 0-terminated string into a Lua string?

You could read the whole file into a single Lua string (which can handle 
embedded \0 characters) and then use patterns to extract the substrings. 
"(.*)%z()" should return a string and the position of the next one.

If you didn't want to read the entire file, you could efficiently do it 
in big chunks of 16kB or so, but then you'd end up with having to deal 
with strings overlapping chunks --- not hard, but irritating.

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David Given
dg@cowlark.com