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[blackbear]

I'm trying to switch over from perl to lua, since perl support under Lion seems to be heading into the "not in my lifetime" territory (for sad reasons, but still...)

So I have an event triggering on matches regexp for ^(.+)$ It's defined as:

require "shangrila"
process_line("%{regexp.1}")

This works great, unless the incoming line contains a " or ', in which case it barfs with:


%% Error: [string "?"]:2: ')' expected near 'that'

How do I get the string properly quoted so I can work with it?

[wombat]

I don't use Lua, but I'm assuming it's this:
process_line(AtlantisState["regexp.1"])

[blackbear]

Nope, still getting the same error

[Sparks]

The latter /should/ work, since the regexp.1 state variable (as added to the Lua state) is a string literal; Lua should in theory already have it escaped, and does when I test it in a quicky test Lua script.

How are you calling the Lua script? If you can give me an easy repro case I'll take a look to see what might be happening.

[blackbear]

Ok, that's working now, I had a call to the other version elsewhere in the script. However, another question. I need to see blank lines that are sent from the server to figure out state, but the pattern:

(.*)

or

^(.*)$

With condition "matches regexp" doesn't fire the event on a blank line from the server.

[Sparks]

That seems like a legitimate bug; it looks like I'm not firing events on zero-length lines. I'll change that for the next build.