Re: Some hints for nmap scripts

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2008 15:41, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 AM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> >
> > > The only script currently using this stuff is one named promiscuous.nse
> > > in Nmap versions up to 4.76 (now named sniffer-detect.nse) (as an aside,
> > > this script has a commented-out section between --[[ and ]]-- which is
> > > not the correct way [3] - it should be --[[ and --]], but for some
> > > reason the script still works as expected and considers the improperly
> > > commented section as a properly commented section - v. odd.)
> >
> > This is actually a "trick" Roberto mentions in his book, PiL, in [1].
> > The comments in sniffer-detect.nse are correct.
> >
> > [1] http://www.lua.org/pil/1.3.html
> I think the trick you refer to is to uncomment a previously commented
> block by adding a third hyphen ---[[ --]]

This is correct. I misread your earlier post taking to mean that --[[
]] commenting should be --[[ --]]. The --[[ ]]-- works because the
final two hyphens are interpreted as a single line comment (which of
course is empty as there is nothing between the hyphens and the
newline).

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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