Re: io.lines() behaviour on \0 characters

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Ico wrote:
> I'm trying to use io.lines() to read lines from a file which contains \0
> characters. This seems to fail, probably because of the fgets() used in
> iolib.c:read_line().
>
> Because - unlike C strings/char arrays - Lua strings are 8-bit safe, the
> expected behaviour for me was for io.lines() to simply handle the \0's
> as regular characters.

This behavior can be easily achieved, see
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-04/msg00266.html

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Shmuel