Re: [NoW] Missing things from Lua

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

I'm latching to the subject, not the post. Some time ago I posted:
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By analogy to the function utf8.codes, it would be nice to have a
function string.bytes so that the construction

     for p, c in string.bytes(s) do body end

will iterate over all bytes in string s, with p being the position.
This is surprisingly clumsy in pure Lua, unless I am missing a trick.
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in reply to which somebody was kind enough to post Lua code
illustrating my point.

-- Dirk