initial release

cosmic rage/lua/string_indexing.lua

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+--[[
+
+  string_indexing.lua
+  
+  If you install this, then you can index into strings, like this:
+  
+  
+    require "string_indexing"
+    
+    a = "nick"
+    print (a [3])  --> c
+
+
+
+--]]
+
+getmetatable ("").__index = function (str, i)
+
+  if (type (i) == "number") then
+    return string.sub (str, i, i)  -- index into str
+  end -- if
+
+  return string [i]  -- fallback (eg. string.match)
+end -- function