Re: Which parts of Lua C-code handle string literals and multi-line comments?

[Claudio Grondi <claudio.grondi@...>]

Thanks ... and yes, this ( https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/llex.c#L476 ) is exactly what I was looking for.

Now knowing this I ask myself how did it come, that I haven't came up with the idea to look for the pattern `'['` myself wondering how can it be that there is no `[[` pattern in the C-source code ...

The Lua lexer goes byte by byte and is not using regular _expression_ patterns or two or more byte patterns I have falsely somehow assumed that it does because of the answer to the latest question here on the list about long and short comments which mentioned the pattern `[=*[` in the context of detecting long comments ... this somehow resulted in my mind in a wrong assumption leading to the asked question. 

Claudio

On 10/2/23 13:11, Spar wrote:

https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/llex.c#L476

On Oct 2, 2023 at 12:25 +0300, Claudio Grondi <claudio.grondi@freenet.de>, wrote:

Lua provides support for multi-line string literals invoked by `[[` and
finalized with `]]` and for multi-line comments invoked with `--[[`,
`--[=[`, ...

I have searched Lua C-code for `--[[`, `--[=` and `[[` but failed to
find this patterns which I would like to replace for custom purposes
with another ones.

Any hints towards where to look and what to change?