Re: [Haserl-users] haserl / lua eats my newline?

[Nico de H. <nic...@gm...>]

Hi Ralph,

As you point out the EVAL translates to 'echo -n' and does not include a
newline - this is what I expect and I think that that is the way it should
work. My point is... why is the newline after the <%= foo %> no longer
there. Looking at the output with the debug flag set:

~~~~~ code ~~~~~

 io.write([=[content-type: text/plain

]=])
 foo="bar"
 io.write([=[

The value of foo is ]=])
 io.write(tostring( foo ))
 io.write([=[. Note that this in the middle of a line
Wat is the value of foo? ]=])
 io.write(tostring( foo ))
 io.write([=[
Hey, where did my newline go?
]=])

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Looks like the io.write starts with a newline but that newline does
not end up in the output. I ran some extra tests using just lua and I
found that these two bits of lua (Note the extra newline at the start
of the 2nd io.write) give the same output:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

io.write([=[This is a line
]=])
io.write([=[
This is a line
]=])

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Looks like lua itself is eating the newline.

Regards,

Nico