12 replies to this topic

[Sillyjake]

Hello, I'm trying to make a television-like program, But the thing is I want to know how to run "print("Hello World!")" In a line, So its like... (RunThisLineHere is used for it, I just need to know what it really is)
while true do
local msg = rednet.receive()
RunThisLineHere(msg)
end

[CometWolf]

use dostring, it loads a string as a piece of code and executes it.

dostring(msg)

[oeed]

While CometWolf's method will work, it's probably not the most efficient or secure way to do it. Personally, I'd send it as a table then pick out certain bits.

[theoriginalbit]

CometWolf, on 23 March 2014 - 01:59 AM, said:

use dostring

dostring? loadstring maybe?

[oeed]

theoriginalbit, on 23 March 2014 - 04:45 AM, said:

CometWolf, on 23 March 2014 - 01:59 AM, said:

use dostring

dostring? loadstring maybe?

Oh right, there isn't a dostring is there, only dofile.

In that case, you'll want this:

while true do
	local msg = rednet.receive()
	local f = loadstring(msg)
	f()
	-- you could do this in one line if you wish using the below, but the above allows for more flexibility
	loadstring(msg)()
end

Edited by oeed, 24 March 2014 - 08:50 PM.

[cygnis]

Personally, i just use the shell.run function:

while true do
    local msg = rednet.receive()
    shell.run(msg)
end

If security is your thing, I'd also include an ID check to consider where the msg is coming from:

while true do
    local id,msg = rednet.receive()
    if id == yourSender then
	    shell.run(msg)
    end
end

[CometWolf]

Right, forgot there is no actual dostring function, although loadstring()() is pretty much the same.

shell.run does not execute code, and as such it would not do what the op asked for.

[cygnis]

CometWolf, on 23 March 2014 - 10:37 PM, said:

shell.run does not execute code, and as such it would not do what the op asked for.

doh... right you are.

[Lyqyd]

If I recall correctly, the loadstring trick needs another set of parentheses to actually work:

(loadstring())()

It's been a while since I've done anything with it, though.

[CometWolf]

Just tested, it dosen't. loadstring only returns the function, provided there are no errors while compiling it.

[apemanzilla]

oeed, on 23 March 2014 - 04:56 AM, said:

Oh right, there isn't a dostring is there, only dostring.

dostring ~= dostring?

[oeed]

Apemanzilla, on 24 March 2014 - 02:20 PM, said:

oeed, on 23 March 2014 - 04:56 AM, said:

Oh right, there isn't a dostring is there, only dostring.

dostring ~= dostring?

*faceplam*
I meant dofile obviously.

[Sillyjake]

Oh wow, I just noticed that I took the 100th view of this post. XD but thank you all for your help!