Re: creating a table from a file

[Peter Melnichenko <petjamelnik@...>]

2014-01-25 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
> If you can trust the input, you can use loadfile() to execute the entire
> file. Otherwise you need to parse it and build the table yourself.

If you can't trust the input, you can use literal.eval_config from a library I've recently published on luarocks: https://github.com/mpeterv/literal

Peter