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On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> n1, n2 = string.scanb(str,"%fb%8l")
>
> instead of some code that I am too terrified even to attempt.

+1 for this - more efficient since less Lua->C call overhead for multiple items.

But then, we're getting back to struct:

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/struct/

which does this (and more)