Re: Literal string strangeness

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

2009/10/23 Dirk Feytons <dirk.feytons@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mauro Iazzi <mauro.iazzi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would have expected a 13 in place of the second 10.  Any ideas?
>>> I am using Lua 5.1.4 on linux.  Thanx!
>>
>> It is deliberate, see llex.c lines 257-263. I cannot find any mention
>> in the manual ( assuming it would be in
>> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.1)
>
> It is mentioned there: "For convenience, when the opening long bracket
> is immediately followed by a newline, the newline is not included in
> the string."
>

No, this is different. It is to do with Lua's "handling" of CRLF line
endings I believe. I feel this is wrong in strings, especially long
strings, and have been hit by it before (fair enough, I /was/ trying
to embed binary data inside a script).

Matthew