Re: Skipping leading "shebangs" in a file

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 07.08.2016 um 23:39 schröbte Robert Virding:
> Hi,

Hi!

> I implement luerl, an Lua implementation running on top of erlang/OTP (
> https://github.com/rvirding/luerl), and try to keep it as compatible as I
> can with standard Lua, currently Lua 5.2.
>
> One thing I have noticed is that is skips leading "shebang" line, that is a
> line which starts with "#! / ...". This is useful for scripts and for
> loading script files into Lua. Where is this documented? Is it documented?
> I have tried to find it but haven't been successful.

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#luaL_loadfilex

> It also skips leading BOM as well.

AFAIK, the Lua manual doesn't say anything about a BOM. Maybe your C 
library is responsible?!

> Thanks for any help,
>
> Robert

Philipp