Re: table key starting with backslash

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 01/11/2015 11:43, Christopher Kappe wrote:
> If the escape character "\" isn't allowed as first character in a string
> key, it should be stated somewhere.

*Any* character is allowed at *any* position of a string key. But if a 
string key is not a valid identifier then the ["xxx"] syntax has to be 
used, e.g. ["\n"] or ["\\n"] etc.
It is stated very clear in the manual.

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Shmuel