The Hacker's Language in Action: #3 Strings

Strings in Lua are sequences of bytes... Lua is eight-bit clean and its strings can contain bytes with any numeric code, including embedded zeros.

Roberto Ierusalimschy.

Basics: a change, length operator and concatenation operator

Escape sequences in Lua

C-like Escape Sequence	Character
\a	bell
\b	backspace
\f	form feed
\n	newline
\r	carriage return
\t	horizontal tab
\v	vertical tab
\\	backslash
\"	double quote
\'	single quote

Corecions

The String Library

Format and More:

Unicode

References

• Roberto Ierusalimschy, Programming in Lua, Fourth Edition.
• lua.org

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