Re: Does lua provide something like range strings?

["Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard () IGT com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On
> Behalf Of Peter Wu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 10:14 AM
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does lua provide something like range strings?
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:59:35AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > I am wondering if the Lua interp in Wireshark provides the equivalent
> > of range strings?
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
> > I guess I could make the indexes strings, since they are associative
> > arrays anyway but looking up a value in a range would be difficult.
>
> There does not seem to be support for range strings, but it could be added. See
> value_string_from_table in epan/wslua/wslua_proto_field.c for an example.
>
> I suppose that the natural syntax would be:
>
>     local your_range_string = {
>         { 0, 24, "First quarter" },
>         { 25, 54, "Second quarter" },
>     };

That would be a welcome addition!
- Chris











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