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On 02/27/2011 07:12 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 27 February 2011 15:07, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've had a look at the wiki, as this is a fairly stock problem, but
>> don't see anything.
> 
> OK, I bite. I use Lua regularly, and almost exclusively for
> command-line programming, and I've never needed to "argify" a string
> (nice word, though). What's it for?

The same or similar need arises for me not for "argification" but rather for
parsing various text file formats.