Re: Why does `load()` fail here?

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> code =  "return '\n' "
> =load(code)
nil    [string "return '..."]:1: unfinished string near '''

Because the \n is interpreted when you define the string constant containing the code, so load() is receiving:

return '
'

You need to either double the backslash or (probably more readable for long strings) use [[ ]] instead of " ".

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