Re: t-inifile, my first experience with lua

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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 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
> - the utf-thinspace is ignored
> 
> Cheers and thanks a lot to the luatex and MKIV developers!

i have no time to look into it ... a few comments ...


inifile = {}

^^^

there are three predefined namespaces:

userdata  = userdata  or { }
thirddata = thirddata or { }
document  = document  or { }

in your case, use

thirddata.inifile = { }


-- just for debugging: print the table to stdout
local function print_table()
	for i = 1,#inifile.t do
		print("")
		print(i, inifile.t[i].key)
		for k, v in pairs(inifile.t[i]) do
			print("", k, v)
		end
		print("")
	end
end


just do:

print(table.serialize(thirddata.inifile.t)

(there are quite some helpers defined in l-string, l-table cum suis)


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