Re: require vs dofile (lua 5.1.4 windows)

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Side note, as this is often missed by newcomers: instead of

>    require "..\\a\\a.lua"
> will get a error can not find a.lua
>
> but use
>    dofile("..\\a\\a.lua")
> will ok

you can use either forward slashes as it is well supported by the Windows API:

require "../a/a.lua"
dofile  "../a/a.lua"

and is more portable, or if you prefer to keep the Windows look (or just easier to 
copy/paste these paths), just use long format of literal strings:

require [[..\a\a.lua]]
dofile  [[..\a\a.lua]]

I always found these doubled anti-slashes quite ugly/unreadable. It is particularly 
aggravating for regular expressions in Java (making stuff not particularly readable 
totally obscure!) which doesn't have such facilities...

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