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[Lua] printing a table
From: Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:51:25 -0600
Hi all, The newer methods I'm writing are modelled after the interface that Microsoft uses for the RPC calls. Unfortunately, this often means that the important data is 3 or 4 structs down. I was giving myself a headache trying to remember where everything goes, so I threw together a quick function to print out everything in a table: -- ---Converts an arbitrary data type into a string. Will recursively convert -- tables. -- --@param data The data to convert. --@param indent (optional) The number of times to indent the line. Default -- is 0. --@return A string representation of a data, will be one or more full lines. function to_string(data, indent) local str = "" if(indent == nil) then indent = 0 end -- Check the type if(type(data) == "string") then str = str .. (" "):rep(indent) .. data .. "\n" elseif(type(data) == "number") then str = str .. (" "):rep(indent) .. data .. "\n" elseif(type(data) == "boolean") then if(data == true) then str = str .. "true" else str = str .. "false" end elseif(type(data) == "table") then local i, v for i, v in pairs(data) do -- Check for a table in a table if(type(v) == "table") then str = str .. (" "):rep(indent) .. i .. ":\n" str = str .. to_string(v, indent + 2) else str = str .. (" "):rep(indent) .. i .. ": " .. to_string(v, 0) end end else print_debug(1, "Error: unknown data type: %s", type(data)) end return str end -- Does anybody know if there's an easier (or built-in) way to do this? I put this code in stdnse for now, on my branch at least. -- Ron Bowes http://www.skullsecurity.org/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- [Lua] printing a table Ron (Nov 22)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Patrick Donnelly (Nov 22)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Ron (Nov 22)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Ron (Nov 22)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Kris Katterjohn (Nov 23)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Ron (Nov 22)
- Re: [Lua] printing a table Patrick Donnelly (Nov 22)