From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/86581 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Trimming strings and Lua string.trim question Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:38:09 +0100 Message-ID: <53185011.5070801@wxs.nl> References: <5316ABF3.5050302@rik.users.panix.com> <5316DF28.3070300@wxs.nl> <53173D9E.1050907@rik.users.panix.com> <5678BF45-446A-4769-851C-1F587D37701C@gmail.com> <5317ACAB.4050904@rik.users.panix.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394102301 24715 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2014 10:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:38:21 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 06 11:38:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLVh9-0002cr-9H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:38:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177B4101F8; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id NZW7CMScTMvg; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D955C101EF; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D13B101EF for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:26 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3W23hRpVggPC for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C08101E1 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:38:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s26AsQGb014290 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:54:27 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 5722-1713362 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:38:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <5317ACAB.4050904@rik.users.panix.com> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: ntg-context@ntg.nl, base:default, @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01LyaSqz5 - 93074f6edb5b - 20140306 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:86581 Archived-At: On 3/6/2014 12:00 AM, Rik Kabel wrote: > On 2014-03-05 10:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >> Am 05.03.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster >> >: >> >>> >>> Am 05.03.2014 um 16:07 schrieb Rik Kabel >> >: >>> >>>>> striplong >>>>> >>>> >>>> It would be nice if striplong worked, but the example fails when >>>> string.striplong is used in place of string.strip. The log says: >>>> >>>> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: attempt to call field >>>> 'striplong' (a nil value) >>>> stack traceback: >>>> [string "\directlua "]:1: in main chunk. >>>> >>>> Is the format of the call different than shown in the wiki, or is a >>>> different mechanism required to quote a potentially long string? >>> >>> The name of the function is =93strings.striplong=94. >> >> This should be =93utilities.strings.striplong=94 but it has no effect >> because when take a look >> at the saved string in Lua you can see that blank lines are removed >> from the text. >> >> Wolfgang > > Indeed. This does build without error, but the > utilities.strings.striplong result is worse than the string.strip > result, with some additional whitespace at the end of the test string > from the earlier example. the definition of 'worse' depends on expectations and given the fact = that in tex a newline or two newlines in a row have a different meaning = it is just a guess what you want to achieve anyway, the next beta will have local str =3D table.concat( { " ", " aap", " noot mies", " ", " ", " zus wim jet", "zus wim jet", " zus wim jet", " ", }, "\n") utilities.strings.striplines(str,'prune'): [[aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet]] utilities.strings.striplines(str,'prune and collapse'): [[aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet]] utilities.strings.striplines(str,'prune and no empty'): [[aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet]] utilities.strings.striplines(str,'retain'): [[ aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet ]] utilities.strings.striplines(str,'retain and collapse'): [[ aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet ]] utilities.strings.striplines(str,'retain and no empty'): [[ aap noot mies zus wim jet zus wim jet zus wim jet ]] so you can choose what you like Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________