Hello, I have completed a very rough version of the section on collections; with arrays, sets, maps. If you like, you can have a look the source (file tabstruct') there ! (Checked the pointer, this time.) If ever I have enough time tomorrow and this week-end (and energy, this job sucks my ch'i !), I...

I just realised that, apparently, the "%q" string format tag does not truely escaped newlines !!! print (string.format("%q", "XXX\tXXX\nXXX")) --[[ output: "XXX\9XXX\ XXX" ]] Why so? It does escape tab properly, so why not newlines? And what's this backslash r...

Hi spir, Very nice and short tutorial, I enjoyed it :nyu: . It was a little bit hard to read, though, as the source file does not have format, but I understand is a raw first version. Let me try to suggest something. One property I find very important and very usefull is that tables are stored by r...

if (condition) then --[[some code that will be executed if the condition is not false or nil]] end main_menu_buttons[var].Hover can either be equal to true or equal to false, so writing main_menu_buttons[var].Hover means writing true or false. When main_menu_buttons[var].Hover is true, the code &qu...

Roland_Yonaba wrote:All the links you gave point to that same thread, and I can't find those said tutorial files.
Or I may have missed something...I didn't have coffee since this morning...

It's me missing coffee! Sh*it! Corrected the link to the online repo, thanks for telling,
Denis

Hello spir, Unfortunately my current utf8.lua is a simple approach. I tried to support more advanced stuff like lower/upper cases on Unicode, finally I thought it's too complicated... I think if someone want a true and full support of UTF-8 (or Unicode) he must use a better solution, like : * ICU4l...

Nixola wrote: P.S: you don't need to declare or create the variable used in a 'for' loop, it's created automatically

You also don't need "== true" in Understand why? (If not, ask).

Denis

For information: i started a thread about a tutorial on Lua tables & data structures.denis

See new thread for the tutorial.

Denis

Hello, after a short exchange in the thread tables for dummies , I started to write some material for a tutorial intended for the wiki. One chapter out of four planned is completed (however probably the biggest), plus an introduction, all in rough form. It is there (there is a file with the source t...