Re: C API to check if string is valid varible name

[Tomas Mudrunka <mudrunka@...>]

Dne 2023-03-24 12:57, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo napsal:
> > Is there some C API to check wether given string is a valid 
> > identifier?
>
> No. But see the code for "identifier or reserved word" in llex:
> https://www.lua.org/source/5.1/llex.c.html#llex
>
> > It would be really beneficial in some cases.
>
> For instance?

I have lua embedded in system where users can define table of variables 
and then write expressions to process them. However i think it would be 
reasonable to have some sanity checks in place, so i don't have to 
explain why formulas using variable called "TIME-MAX" are not working 
:-) and stuff like that...

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