prog =

{

name = "string_ext stdlib Example",

banner = " 0.1 (05/27/2008) by RJP Computing <rjpcomputing@gmail.com>)",

purpose = "Shows some of the 'string_ext' functions that stdlib includes",

}

require( "string_ext" )

require( "math_ext" )

poem = "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.\"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,\" I said, \"art sure nocraven,Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore-Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!\"Quoth the Raven, \"Nevermore.\"Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door-Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,With such name as \"Nevermore.\"But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke onlyThat one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.Nothing further then he uttered- not a feather then he fluttered-Till I scarcely more than muttered, \"other friends have flownbefore-On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.\"Then the bird said, \"Nevermore.\""

str1 = "Short strings are "

str2 = "easy to work with.\n"

print( poem[3] )

print( str1..str2 )

print( str1:caps() )

print( str2:chomp() )

print( string.escapePattern( "This is the (number) 1. A string to that contains a \"double\" 2.0" ) )

print( string.escapeShell( "C:\\Program Files\\Lua\\5.1" ) )

print( "short version of second =", string.ordinalSuffix( 2 ) )

print( string.pad( poem, -80 ) )

print( poem:wrap( 80, 2, 4 ) )

print( string.numbertosi( 14300 ) )