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Lua - Loading from memory

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Started by __Daedalus__ July 07, 2004 06:24 AM

1 comment, last by __Daedalus__ 20 years ago

__Daedalus__

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July 07, 2004 06:24 AM

Is there a way to load Lua scripts from memory? For example, at the moment I call lua_dofile() and supply a Lua state and filename. What I want to do is copy my Lua file from my PAK file in to memory and load it from there. Thanks

Ciehoo

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July 07, 2004 06:30 AM

There are 2 functions that you can use to accomplish this:

LUALIB_API int lua_dobuffer (lua_State *L, const char *buff, size_t size,                          const char *name) {  return aux_do(L, luaL_loadbuffer(L, buff, size, name));}LUALIB_API int lua_dostring (lua_State *L, const char *str) {  return lua_dobuffer(L, str, strlen(str), str);}

These are taken from the source code in the aux library, the same that provides lua_dofile.

EDIT: spelling nazi syndrome ;)