Re: [nmap-svn] r33632 - in nmap: nselib scripts

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>
wrote:

> For future reference, Lua 5.2 offers the \z escape sequence which
> skips all whitespace characters following it in a literal string:
>
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.1
>
> The escape sequence '\z' skips the following span of white-space
> characters, including line breaks; it is particularly useful to break
> and indent a long literal string into multiple lines without adding
> the newlines and spaces into the string contents.

Patrick,

I was aware of \z, and I've used it in the past. For this run-through,
though, I found concatenation to be the simplest visually and with the
substitutions I was doing. As you pointed out, some of these require
concatenations anyway, and multiple concatenations are not really more
expensive than singles.

It does remind me that I want to see if my lua-indent.vim [1] can be
modified to indent \z strings :)

Dan


[1] https://gist.github.com/bonsaiviking/8845871
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