[Dev-luatex] \luaescapestring

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

I've committed a version that has \luaescapestring.
The (rather contrived) test file I used follows below.

Cheers, taco

% luaescapestring.tex

\bgroup
\catcode`B=1
\catcode`E=2
\catcode`.=0
.catcode`.\=12 .xdef .letterbackslash  B.string\E
.egroup


{\tt \luaescapestring{"Hans' \relax-ed macro"}}

\message{\luaescapestring{"Hans' \relax-ed macro"}}

\lua {a="\letterbackslash n\luaescapestring{"Hans' \relax-ed macro"}"; 
print (a); }

{\tt \luaescapestring{"}}

\message{\luaescapestring{"}}

\lua {a="\letterbackslash n\luaescapestring{"}"; print (a); }


{\tt \luaescapestring{"Hans' \relax-ed macro"}}

\message{\luaescapestring{"Hans' \relax-ed macro"}}

\lua {a="\letterbackslash n\luaescapestring{\luaescapestring{"Hans' 
\relax}-ed macro"}"; print (a); }

\bye