Re: Real simple question about strings...

[kenk@...]

Hi there,

   Ya, I was trying that... but how do I insert a variable in between  
the [[ ]] ... everything inside that becomes a literal string. I know  
I could write out to file [[ and then the file path and then ]] ...But  
how do you get, for instance...

filePath = "C:\\apples\\boo\\test.boo";
copyFile = [[ filePath ]];

So that copyFile becomes: [["C:\apples\boo\test.boo"]]

Thanks again!


Quoting Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com>:

> Hallo,
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM,  <kenk@heroesent.com> wrote:
> > I'm having a serious brain fart here.. I start off with a string that holds
> > a file path, something like aFilePath = "c:\\a\\b\\c\\d\\filename.blah.. As
> > I pass it around in Lua, it removes the \ and becomes C:\a\b\c.. and so on..
> > Now I save the filepath to a file, it gets saved as C:\a\b\c\d etc.. without
> > the added \\... now when i try to load up the file, I loose all \'s,
> > obviously because it think's these are escape sequences now... I shouldn't
> > have to replace these all the time with \\ ... how can I keep the file path
> > intact between saves and loads etc?
>
>      You can write the string thus: aFilePath = [[c:\a\b\c\d\filename.blah]]
>
> Cheers,
> --
> -alex
> http://www.artisancoder.com/



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