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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Trimming strings and Lua string.trim question
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:54:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C28C48AF-CC11-44C5-A257-7AB2DD50A3FB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5678BF45-446A-4769-851C-1F587D37701C@gmail.com>


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Am 05.03.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:

> 
> Am 05.03.2014 um 16:07 schrieb Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>:
> 
>>> 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 “strings.striplong”.

This should be “utilities.strings.striplong” 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


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-05  4:45 Rik Kabel
2014-03-05  8:24 ` Hans Hagen
2014-03-05 15:07   ` Rik Kabel
2014-03-05 15:18     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-05 15:54       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2014-03-05 23:00         ` Rik Kabel
2014-03-06 10:38           ` Hans Hagen
2014-03-06 15:04             ` Rik Kabel
2014-03-06 15:27               ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-05 16:28       ` Rik Kabel

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