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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>
Subject: Re: directlua question
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:44:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3efc8ca5-2425-a0e5-6020-09f011399ddc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0258185-AF03-4C0C-8B9C-4E9A8BB43C23@ziggo.nl>

Hans van der Meer schrieb am 04.12.18 um 13:29:
> I am trying to extract something from a string with a \directlua call, 
> the last word of a string in case:
> 
> \directlua{tex.print(string.match(“This is a string","%s%a$"))}
> 
> However, the %s%a are not working with the TeX-error “unfinished string 
> near eof”. Obviously caused by the %’s.
> How to get this working? \textpercent will not do, off course within 
> Luacode.

% = \letterpercent
$ = \letterdollar

You can also replace

   \directlua{tex.print(...)}

with

   \ctxlua{context(...)}

or

   \cldcontext{...}

Wolfgang
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-04 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-04 12:29 Hans van der Meer
2018-12-04 12:41 ` Hans van der Meer
2018-12-04 12:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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