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On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Xruptor wrote:

This is why I would like to strip all magic characters from a string before
parsing ;)  Help is always appreciated.

"Sometimes, you want to change every plain occurrence of s1 to s2, without regarding any character as magic. "

-- Roberto Ierusalimschy, Programming in Lua, "Tricks of the Trade", December 2003
http://www.lua.org/pil/20.4.html

Cheers,

PA.