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I don't think that's the problem, MyVar is simply an identifier that can be used to look up whatever. The problem is it's failing the parsing stage, so it won't work regardless of what VARIABLE returns. I don't think you can do it without stripping the = token: 

  function VARIABLE(handler)
      return function(value)
          _G[handler] = value
      end
  end

VARIABLE "MyVar" "Hello"
print(MyVar)        --> Hello

Mark Feldman

HyperHacker wrote:

I can't see how that would work. You're assigning "Hello" to either a
string or a function call; neither are valid.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 20:55, Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> wrote:

There is a configuration file I deal with that has a syntax like so:

VARIABLE "MyVar" = "Hello"

I thought that, perhaps, Lua could read it directly.  Having a function
called VARIABLE that works with Lua's simplified single parameter string
syntax will solve the VARIABLE "MyVar" portion:

function VARIABLE(name)
   --
end

At this point, I am uncertain what I would have VARIABLE() return that would
allow me to pick up the right side (= "Hello") of the configuration line.

Any thoughts?  Is it possible?

Thanks.

Josh








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