[NTG-context] t-inifile, my first experience with lua

Hello, Hey, it's really fun to code in lua: pattern matching, easy table manipulation and so on, I should have learned it earlier! Since it's my first experience with lua, I would like to ask you for comments on the t-inifile.tex module, attached to this message. I tried to implement a

Re: [NTG-context] t-inifile, my first experience with lua

Hi Peter, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, Hey, it's really fun to code in lua: pattern matching, easy table manipulation and so on, I should have learned it earlier! Looks interesting. Since it's my first experience with lua, I would like to ask you for comments on the

Re: [NTG-context] t-inifile, my first experience with lua

On Mon, Feb 25 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I tried to implement a demo-mode, but there are two small problems: - I don't know how to use \savebuffer, all line-endings disappear in the saved file You can do something like \startbuffer[thewho] contents of the ini file \stopbuffer This

Re: [NTG-context] t-inifile, my first experience with lua

Peter Münster wrote: Hello, Hey, it's really fun to code in lua: pattern matching, easy table manipulation and so on, I should have learned it earlier! Since it's my first experience with lua, I would like to ask you for comments on the t-inifile.tex module, attached to this message. I

Re: [NTG-context] t-inifile, my first experience with lua

On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: in your case, use thirddata.inifile = { } [...] just do: print(table.serialize(thirddata.inifile.t) (there are quite some helpers defined in l-string, l-table cum suis) Thank you, Hans, for your fast reply, these are already 2 useful hints!