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On 27 September 2010 20:22, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:00:32PM +1000, Quae Quack wrote:
>
>> why not use ungetc?
>
> Because Lua is written in C, and C's ungetc is not guarenteed to work
> for more tha one byte.
>
> B.
>
>

Not guaranteed to work, but you can try, checking for EOF.