字符串教程

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引号

字符串在参考手册的第 2.1 节中介绍 [1]。字符串可以使用单引号、双引号或双方括号定义。

> = "hello"
hello
> = 'hello'
hello
> = [[hello]]
hello

为什么会有这么多方法来创建字符串？这样你就可以用一种引号类型来包含另一种引号类型。例如：

> = 'hello "Lua user"'
hello "Lua user"
> = "Its [[content]] hasn't got a substring."
Its [[content]] hasn't got a substring.
> = [[Let's have more "strings" please.]]
Let's have more "strings" please.

双括号字符串还有一些其他特殊属性，将在下面讨论。

转义序列

Lua 也可以处理类似 C 的转义序列。参考手册的第 2.1 节中有更多详细信息 [1]。

> = "hello \"Lua user\""
hello "Lua user"
> = 'hello\nNew line\tTab'
hello
New line        Tab

使用双括号时，不会识别转义序列，因此

> = [[hello\nNew line\tTab]]

hello\nNew line\tTab

多行引号

双方括号可以用来包含跨越多行的字面字符串。例如：

> = [[Multiple lines of text
>> can be enclosed in double square
>> brackets.]]
Multiple lines of text
can be enclosed in double square
brackets.

嵌套引号

双方括号允许嵌套，但它们需要在最外层的括号中插入一个或多个 = 来区分它们。插入多少个 = 都没关系，只要开头和结尾括号中的数量相同即可。

> = [[one [[two]] one]]        -- bad
stdin:1: nesting of [[...]] is deprecated near '['
> = [=[one [[two]] one]=]      -- ok
one [[two]] one
> = [===[one [[two]] one]===]  -- ok too
one [[two]] one
> = [=[one [ [==[ one]=]       -- ok. nothing special about the inner content.
one [ [==[ one

连接

可以使用连接运算符 ".." 将字符串连接在一起。例如：

> = "hello" .. " Lua user"
hello Lua user
> who = "Lua user"
> = "hello "..who
hello Lua user

> = "Green bottles: "..10
Green bottles: 10
> = type("Green bottles: "..10)
string

执行大量的连接操作可能会很慢，因为每次连接都可能在内存中分配一个新的字符串。以下三个示例的结果相同，但第一个示例可能要慢得多

-- slow
local s = ''
for i=1,10000 do s = s .. math.random() .. ',' end
io.stdout:write(s)

-- fast
for i=1,10000 do io.stdout:write(tostring(math.random()), ',') end

-- fast, but uses more memory
local t = {}
for i=1,10000 do t[i] = tostring(math.random()) end
io.stdout:write(table.concat(t,','), ',') 

字符串库

Lua 在其标准库中提供了一系列用于处理和操作字符串的有用函数。更多详细信息请参见 StringLibraryTutorial。以下是一些字符串库使用示例。

> = string.byte("ABCDE", 2) -- return the ASCII value of the second character
66
> = string.char(65,66,67,68,69) -- return a string constructed from ASCII values
ABCDE
> = string.find("hello Lua user", "Lua") -- find substring "Lua"
7       9
> = string.find("hello Lua user", "l+") -- find one or more occurrences of "l"
3       4
> = string.format("%.7f", math.pi) -- format a number
3.1415927
> = string.format("%8s", "Lua") -- format a string
     Lua

强制转换

Lua 在适当的情况下会自动将数字转换为字符串，反之亦然。这被称为强制转换。

> = "This is Lua version " .. 5.1 .. " we are using."
This is Lua version 5.1 we are using.
> = "Pi = " .. math.pi
Pi = 3.1415926535898
> = "Pi = " .. 3.1415927
Pi = 3.1415927

> = string.format("%.3f", 5.1)
5.100
> = "Lua version " .. string.format("%.1f", 5.3)
Lua version 5.3