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- Subject: Re: Running Lua script file from Lua Console
- From: "Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@...>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:45:45 -0700
On Wednesday 09, Anurag Sharma wrote:
> The console shows up as follows
> Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>
>
> Then I run the Lua script file as follow
>
> > C:\a\ScriptingLanguageSupport\Lua2.lua
>
> It gives me this error message
>
> stdin:1: '<name>' expected near '\'
That is the Lua interpreter and it expects Lua code not files to execute.
Type this Lua code to execute that Lua script:
dofile("C:\\a\\ScriptingLanguageSupport\\Lua2.lua")
Note the double backslashes. One backslash is used to escape some control
characters like newline "\n", tab "\t".
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Robert G. Jakabosky
