Re: Some hints for nmap scripts

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

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 ---[[ --]]

jah

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