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Topic: Lua strings

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mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,20:07

Reading through the Lua 5.1 docs I see something I didn't notice in earlier versions. They mention the # operator, which gives the length of a string:

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len=#s

What I'm curious about is the difference between using this and using the string.len() function:

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len=string.len(s)

Any ideas?

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