lua scripts as string within another script

[Milind Gupta <milind.gupta@...>]

Hi,

        I have a lua script which has some scripts written inside string variables. Is it possible to have these scripts as compiled scripts so when I compile the main script using luac these scripts are not visible directly as text in the compiled file?

       I tried to have the strings as string.dump(load(scriptAsString)) but that still has the text of the script although I see some binary characters appended.

Thanks,

Milind