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return title .. script; -- return the concatenation | return title .. script; -- return the concatenation | ||
end | |||
--[[--------------------------< E S C A P E _ L U A _ M A G I C _ C H A R S >---------------------------------- | |||
Returns a string where all of lua's magic characters have been escaped. This is important because functions like | |||
string.gsub() treat their pattern and replace strings as patterns, not literal strings. | |||
]] | |||
local function escape_lua_magic_chars (argument) | |||
argument = argument:gsub("%%", "%%%%"); -- replace % with %% | |||
argument = argument:gsub("([%^%$%(%)%.%[%]%*%+%-%?])", "%%%1"); -- replace all other lua magic pattern characters | |||
return argument; | |||
end | end | ||